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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira · Francisco Trinaldo vs John Makdessi
From the tape · 14 Mar 2020

Francisco Trinaldo vs John Makdessi

UFC Fight Night: Lee vs. Oliveira · Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Result

Francisco Trinaldo beat John Makdessi

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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.

FT
Red corner FranciscoTrinaldo“Massaranduba”Brazilian TKO · Brasilia, Federal District
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lightweight3 rounds14 Mar 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Makdessi.
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
28-9
Record
18-9
41
Age
−7 yr34
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+420
UFC bouts
16
+13%6/1443% of wins
Finishes
3/1030% of wins
Brazilian TKO
Gym
Tristar Gym
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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
Francisco Trinaldo12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 22BODY50%6 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
John Makdessi25 sig landed
HEAD20%5 of 9BODY28%7 of 10LEGS52%13 of 16
12 of 30
Sig.
strikes
25 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Trinaldo firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Joseph Terrell10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Francisco Trinaldo19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 33BODY32%6 of 10LEGS5%1 of 1
John Makdessi19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 18BODY26%5 of 8LEGS53%10 of 12
19 of 44
Sig.
strikes
19 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Trinaldo firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Joseph Terrell10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Francisco Trinaldo24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 45BODY21%5 of 5LEGS8%2 of 2
John Makdessi23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 27BODY17%4 of 8LEGS57%13 of 15
24 of 52
Sig.
strikes
23 of 50
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Trinaldo firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Joseph Terrell10–9

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 · Osiris Maia
Francisco TrinaldoJohn Makdessi
Official totals — Francisco Trinaldo first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Joseph Terrell2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 11 scored, Francisco Trinaldo first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Trinaldo · 71%29-28 Trinaldo · 24%29-28 Makdessi · 3%30-26 Trinaldo · 3%

38 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.

Francisco Trinaldo

0.98takedowns / 15 min
0.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
42%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Francisco Trinaldo↓ −4.5pp
open 63.4%close 58.9%
John Makdessi↑ +4.5pp
open 36.6%close 41.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Francisco Trinaldo opened at 63.4% and closed at 58.9% (−4.5pp), with John Makdessi 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
Francisco Trinaldo-200-15763.4%58.9%−4.5pp
John Makdessi16013536.6%41.1%+4.5pp
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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