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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Smith vs. Teixeira · Ricky Simon vs Ray Borg
From the tape · 13 May 2020

Ricky Simon vs Ray Borg

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

Ricky Simon beat Ray Borg

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 RickySimonAmerican Top Team Portland · Vancouver, Washington
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RayBorg“The Tazmexican Devil”Jackson's MMA Acoma · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Bantamweight3 rounds13 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Borg.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
22-7-1
Record
13-5
27
Age
−1 yr26
+2″5' 6"
Height
5' 4"
+6″69″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+611
+5%1/333% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
American Top Team Portland
Gym
Jackson's MMA Acoma
Vancouver, Washington
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ricky Simon26 sig landed
HEAD46%12 of 30BODY19%5 of 6LEGS35%9 of 10
Ray Borg10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 11BODY40%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
26 of 46
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:38
Control
0:14
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Ricky Simon25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 50BODY28%7 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
Ray Borg14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 27BODY21%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 59
Sig.
strikes
14 of 31
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:23
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricky Simon16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 35BODY6%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Ray Borg23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 33BODY30%7 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
23 of 44
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:22
Control
0:16
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Official totals — Ricky Simon first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 16 scored, Ricky Simon first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Simon · 61%30-27 Simon · 28%29-28 Borg · 7%30-27 Borg · 1%

74 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.

Ricky Simon

4.49takedowns / 15 min
4.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.89 / 15m
10.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.78 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
50%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ray Borg

3.89takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Ricky Simon↑ +13.0pp
open 46.8%close 59.8%
Ray Borg↓ −13.0pp
open 53.2%close 40.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricky Simon opened at 46.8% and closed at 59.8% (+13.0pp), with Ray Borg 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
Ricky Simon105-16346.8%59.8%+13.0pp
Ray Borg-12514053.2%40.2%−13.0pp
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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