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Events · UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France
From the tape · 14 Dec 2019

Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France

UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brandon Moreno beat Kai Kara-France

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
KK
Blue corner KaiKara-France“Don't Blink”City Kickboxing · Auckland
Flyweight3 rounds14 Dec 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 18 points more takedown defence than Moreno.
23-10-2
Record
25-12
26
Age
26
+3″5' 7"
Height
5' 4"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+36
UFC bouts
3
+67%2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
City Kickboxing
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Auckland
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Brandon Moreno27 sig landed
HEAD85%23 of 86BODY11%3 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
Kai Kara-France29 sig landed
HEAD69%20 of 56BODY14%4 of 6LEGS17%5 of 9
27 of 90
Sig.
strikes
29 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Mark Smith10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Moreno30 sig landed
HEAD87%26 of 79BODY13%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 55BODY8%2 of 4LEGS17%4 of 5
30 of 84
Sig.
strikes
24 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9Mark Smith10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brandon Moreno34 sig landed
HEAD85%29 of 96BODY15%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France29 sig landed
HEAD66%19 of 83BODY14%4 of 7LEGS21%6 of 6
34 of 102
Sig.
strikes
29 of 96
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9Mark Smith10–9

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Brandon MorenoKai Kara-France
Official totals — Brandon Moreno first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 19 scored, Brandon Moreno first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Moreno · 68%29-28 Kara-France · 12%30-27 Moreno · 12%30-27 Kara-France · 4%29-26 Moreno · 1%

102 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.87 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
30%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kai Kara-France

0.56takedowns / 15 min

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Brandon Moreno↓ −6.7pp
open 46.9%close 40.3%
Kai Kara-France↑ +6.7pp
open 53.1%close 59.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Moreno opened at 46.9% and closed at 40.3% (−6.7pp), with Kai Kara-France moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Brandon Moreno10014046.9%40.3%−6.7pp
Kai Kara-France-130-16253.1%59.7%+6.7pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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