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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till · Mauricio Rua vs Rogerio Nogueira
From the tape · 25 Jul 2020

Mauricio Rua vs Rogerio Nogueira

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Mauricio Rua beat Rogerio Nogueira

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

MR
Red corner MauricioRua“Shogun”Universidade da Luta · Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
RN
Blue corner RogerioNogueira“Minotouro”Benevides, Para
Light Heavyweight3 rounds25 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Nogueira.
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than Rua.
27-14-1
Record
23-10
−6 yr38
Age
44
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
+1″76″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+820
UFC bouts
12
+13%8/1080% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
Curitiba, Parana
From
Benevides, Para
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
Mauricio Rua16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 26BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%8 of 9
Rogerio Nogueira13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 29BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 36
Sig.
strikes
13 of 30
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:29
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 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
Mauricio Rua15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 22BODY33%5 of 6LEGS20%3 of 3
Rogerio Nogueira15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 34BODY33%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 31
Sig.
strikes
15 of 39
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
1:21
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 4
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
Mauricio Rua23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 24BODY26%6 of 7LEGS22%5 of 5
Rogerio Nogueira18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 28BODY11%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 36
Sig.
strikes
18 of 31
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:17
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 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

Decision - Split

Referee · Marc Goddard
Official totals — Mauricio Rua first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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.

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.

Mauricio Rua

2.01takedowns / 15 min
2.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.64 / 15m
4.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.45 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
44%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Rogerio Nogueira

0.64takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Mauricio Ruaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 66.6%
Rogerio Nogueiraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 33.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Mauricio Rua 66.6%, Rogerio Nogueira 33.4%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Mauricio Rua-22366.6%
Rogerio Nogueira25018933.4%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Mauricio Rua, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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