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Events · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Matt Brown vs Bryan Barberena
From the tape · 26 Mar 2022

Matt Brown vs Bryan Barberena

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

Bryan Barberena beat Matt Brown

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

MB
Red corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BryanBarberena“Bam Bam”Gym-O · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Welterweight3 rounds26 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 14 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 28 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Barberena.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Brown.
26-19
Record
18-12
41
Age
−9 yr32
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1528
UFC bouts
13
+30%14/1688% of wins
Finishes
4/757% of wins
Immortal Fight Team
Gym
Gym-O
Xenia, Ohio
From
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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
Matt Brown23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 21BODY52%12 of 12LEGS13%3 of 4
Bryan Barberena23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 36BODY9%2 of 4LEGS35%8 of 11
23 of 37
Sig.
strikes
23 of 51
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:16
Distance 9Clinch 11Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brown firstAndrew Adkins10–9Michael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Brown23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 20BODY52%12 of 14LEGS9%2 of 2
Bryan Barberena35 sig landed
HEAD74%26 of 47BODY6%2 of 3LEGS20%7 of 10
23 of 36
Sig.
strikes
35 of 60
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:45
Control
0:30
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 5
Judges · this round · Brown firstAndrew Adkins9–10Michael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Brown35 sig landed
HEAD54%19 of 34BODY40%14 of 18LEGS6%2 of 4
Bryan Barberena53 sig landed
HEAD81%43 of 87BODY15%8 of 11LEGS4%2 of 2
35 of 56
Sig.
strikes
53 of 100
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:11
Distance 25Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 17Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brown firstAndrew Adkins10–9Michael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Matt BrownBryan Barberena
Official totals — Matt Brown first
JudgeTotal
Andrew Adkins29–28
Michael Bell28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 21 scored, Matt Brown first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Scott Fontana New York Post28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Barberena · 52%29-28 Brown · 34%30-27 Brown · 5%30-27 Barberena · 5%

186 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.

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 15 min
1.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.13 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.59 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
22%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Bryan Barberena

0.13takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Matt Brown↓ −9.2pp
open 58.0%close 48.8%
Bryan Barberena↑ +9.2pp
open 42.0%close 51.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Brown opened at 58.0% and closed at 48.8% (−9.2pp), with Bryan Barberena 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
Matt Brown-150-10558.0%48.8%−9.2pp
Bryan Barberena130-11642.0%51.2%+9.2pp
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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