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Events · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira · Gabriel Benitez vs Omar Morales
From the tape · 13 May 2020

Gabriel Benitez vs Omar Morales

UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Omar Morales beat Gabriel Benitez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

GB
Red corner GabrielBenitez“Moggly”American Kickboxing Academy · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
OM
Blue corner OmarMorales“Venezuelan Fighter”The Goat Shed Academy · Caracas, Capital District
Lightweight3 rounds13 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Morales.
23-13
Record
11-4
−3 yr31
Age
34
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+78
UFC bouts
1
3/560% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
The Goat Shed Academy
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Caracas, Capital District
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
Gabriel Benitez15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 39BODY33%5 of 7LEGS27%4 of 7
Omar Morales12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 49BODY8%1 of 1LEGS33%4 of 5
15 of 53
Sig.
strikes
12 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benitez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Howard Reichbach9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gabriel Benitez13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 39BODY38%5 of 8LEGS31%4 of 6
Omar Morales20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 45BODY45%9 of 13LEGS10%2 of 2
13 of 53
Sig.
strikes
20 of 60
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benitez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Howard Reichbach9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gabriel Benitez22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 55BODY50%11 of 13LEGS18%4 of 5
Omar Morales31 sig landed
HEAD65%20 of 84BODY32%10 of 14LEGS3%1 of 2
22 of 73
Sig.
strikes
31 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benitez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Howard Reichbach9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Gabriel BenitezOmar Morales
Official totals — Gabriel Benitez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Howard Reichbach27–30

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, Gabriel Benitez first · unofficial

Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morales · 60%30-27 Morales · 17%29-28 Benitez · 17%30-27 Benitez · 4%30-28 Morales · 2%

48 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.

Gabriel Benitez

0.22takedowns / 15 min
0.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.46 / 15m
0.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.46 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
100%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Omar Morales

0.46takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Gabriel Benitez↑ +3.9pp
open 35.6%close 39.5%
Omar Morales↓ −3.9pp
open 64.4%close 60.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gabriel Benitez opened at 35.6% and closed at 39.5% (+3.9pp), with Omar Morales 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
Gabriel Benitez16514535.6%39.5%+3.9pp
Omar Morales-215-16764.4%60.5%−3.9pp
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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