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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Luis Saldana vs Bruno Souza
From the tape · 26 Mar 2022

Luis Saldana vs Bruno Souza

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Luis Saldana beat Bruno Souza

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

LS
Red corner LuisSaldanaFight Ready · Des Moines, Iowa
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BrunoSouza“The Tiger”Renovacao Fight Team · Brazil
Featherweight3 rounds26 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Souza.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Saldana.
16-7-1
Record
10-3
31
Age
−5 yr26
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Fight Ready
Gym
Renovacao Fight Team
Des Moines, Iowa
From
Brazil
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
Luis Saldana26 sig landed
HEAD35%9 of 33BODY12%3 of 7LEGS54%14 of 17
Bruno Souza15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 31BODY27%4 of 10LEGS33%5 of 7
26 of 57
Sig.
strikes
15 of 48
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:29
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saldana firstAndrew Adkins10–9Michael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Luis Saldana24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 41BODY12%3 of 5LEGS21%5 of 7
Bruno Souza28 sig landed
HEAD46%13 of 52BODY32%9 of 12LEGS21%6 of 6
24 of 53
Sig.
strikes
28 of 70
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:52
Control
0:07
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saldana firstAndrew Adkins9–10Michael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luis Saldana34 sig landed
HEAD47%16 of 35BODY24%8 of 10LEGS29%10 of 13
Bruno Souza23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 51BODY17%4 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
34 of 58
Sig.
strikes
23 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:15
Control
0:05
Distance 33Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saldana firstAndrew Adkins10–9Michael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Luis SaldanaBruno Souza
Official totals — Luis Saldana first
JudgeTotal
Andrew Adkins29–28
Michael Bell29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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 — 13 scored, Luis Saldana first · unofficial

Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Souza · 58%29-28 Saldana · 28%30-27 Souza · 10%29-27 Saldana · 1%30-27 Saldana · 1%

89 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.

Luis Saldana

0.64takedowns / 15 min
0.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
3.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.12 / 15m
17%
ACCURACY
16%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Bruno Souza

0.50takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Luis Saldana↓ −6.5pp
open 50.0%close 43.5%
Bruno Souza↑ +6.5pp
open 50.0%close 56.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Luis Saldana opened at 50.0% and closed at 43.5% (−6.5pp), with Bruno Souza 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
Luis Saldana-11012050.0%43.5%−6.5pp
Bruno Souza-110-14450.0%56.5%+6.5pp
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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