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History · 2020 · UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Greg Hardy vs Yorgan De Castro
From the tape · 9 May 2020

Greg Hardy vs Yorgan De Castro

UFC 249: Ferguson vs. Gaethje · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Greg Hardy beat Yorgan De Castro

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

GH
Red corner GregHardy“Prince of War”Skills Sport & Fitness · Millington, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
YC
Blue corner Yorgan DeCastro“The Mad Titan”Regiment Training Center · Cape Verde
Heavyweight3 rounds9 May 2020
The story going in
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Castro.
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than Hardy.
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Castro.
7-5
Record
6-3
−2 yr31
Age
33
+5″6' 5"
Height
6' 0"
+6″80″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Skills Sport & Fitness
Gym
Regiment Training Center
Millington, Tennessee
From
Cape Verde
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
Greg Hardy25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 40BODY16%4 of 5LEGS32%8 of 10
Yorgan De Castro15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 30BODY7%1 of 3LEGS53%8 of 8
25 of 55
Sig.
strikes
15 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hardy firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Howard Reichbach10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Greg Hardy16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 18BODY6%1 of 1LEGS62%10 of 12
Yorgan De Castro4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%4 of 4
16 of 31
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hardy firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Howard Reichbach10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Greg Hardy14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 22BODY14%2 of 3LEGS64%9 of 13
Yorgan De Castro5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 8BODY20%1 of 3LEGS80%4 of 6
14 of 38
Sig.
strikes
5 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:53
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hardy firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Howard Reichbach10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Greg HardyYorgan De Castro
Official totals — Greg Hardy first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Howard Reichbach30–27

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 — 15 scored, Greg Hardy first · unofficial

Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hardy · 70%30-27 Hardy · 19%29-28 De Castro · 4%30-27 De Castro · 1%

91 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.

Greg Hardy

0.20takedowns / 15 min
0.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
0.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
33%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Yorgan De Castro

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

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Greg Hardy↑ +3.7pp
open 63.5%close 67.2%
Yorgan De Castro↓ −3.7pp
open 36.5%close 32.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Greg Hardy opened at 63.5% and closed at 67.2% (+3.7pp), with Yorgan De Castro 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
Greg Hardy-190-23463.5%67.2%+3.7pp
Yorgan De Castro16519236.5%32.8%−3.7pp
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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