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History · 2020 · UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Karol Rosa vs Vanessa Melo
From the tape · 11 Jul 2020

Karol Rosa vs Vanessa Melo

UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Karol Rosa beat Vanessa Melo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's BantamweightMain cardReferee · Daniel Movahedi

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 KarolRosaGAEA Project · Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
VSOn the tape
VM
Blue corner VanessaMeloSao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Women's Bantamweight3 rounds11 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Is 26 points more accurate striking than Melo.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Rosa.
19-8
Record
11-8
−7 yr25
Age
32
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
+2″67″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
Vila Velha, Espirito Santo
From
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
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
Karol Rosa40 sig landed
HEAD48%19 of 54BODY10%4 of 6LEGS42%17 of 19
Vanessa Melo14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 42BODY7%1 of 4LEGS36%5 of 6
40 of 79
Sig.
strikes
14 of 52
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:13
Control
0:00
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rosa firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Karol Rosa47 sig landed
HEAD85%40 of 69BODY6%3 of 4LEGS9%4 of 6
Vanessa Melo4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%2 of 5
47 of 79
Sig.
strikes
4 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:18
Control
0:06
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 32
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rosa firstDavid Lethaby10–8Anders Ohlsson10–8Clemens Werner10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Karol Rosa33 sig landed
HEAD70%23 of 57BODY12%4 of 6LEGS18%6 of 7
Vanessa Melo27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 50BODY15%4 of 5LEGS41%11 of 11
33 of 70
Sig.
strikes
27 of 66
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:19
Control
0:00
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rosa firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson9–10Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Daniel Movahedi
Karol RosaVanessa Melo
Official totals — Karol Rosa first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–26
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide29–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–26

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 — 18 scored, Karol Rosa first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–26
Phil Murphy ESPN30–26
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com30–26
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–26
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Rosa · 57%30-27 Rosa · 25%29-27 Rosa · 14%29-28 Rosa · 2%30-25 Rosa · 2%

44 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.

Karol Rosa

1.17takedowns / 15 min
1.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
48%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Vanessa Melo

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

Ranked in Women's 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.

Karol Rosa↑ +9.1pp
open 63.8%close 72.9%
Vanessa Melo↓ −9.1pp
open 36.2%close 27.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Karol Rosa opened at 63.8% and closed at 72.9% (+9.1pp), with Vanessa Melo 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
Karol Rosa-210-31663.8%72.9%+9.1pp
Vanessa Melo16025436.2%27.1%−9.1pp
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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