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Events · UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Alex Morono vs Matthew Semelsberger
From the tape · 30 Jul 2022

Alex Morono vs Matthew Semelsberger

UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Alex Morono beat Matthew Semelsberger

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 AlexMorono“The Great White”Houston, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MatthewSemelsberger“Semi The Jedi”Frederick, Maryland
Welterweight3 rounds30 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
24-13
Record
11-8
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1015
UFC bouts
5
3/1030% of wins
Finishes
+20%2/450% of wins
Houston, Texas
From
Frederick, Maryland
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
Alex Morono30 sig landed
HEAD80%24 of 62BODY20%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 60BODY27%6 of 7LEGS27%6 of 8
30 of 69
Sig.
strikes
22 of 75
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morono firstSteve Armstrong10–9Kent Basinger10–9Seth Fuller10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alex Morono47 sig landed
HEAD89%42 of 71BODY11%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 69BODY15%4 of 10LEGS31%8 of 8
47 of 76
Sig.
strikes
26 of 87
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
0:43
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 45Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Morono firstSteve Armstrong10–9Kent Basinger10–9Seth Fuller10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD SemelsbergerEnded 5:00
Alex Morono29 sig landed
HEAD90%26 of 46BODY10%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Matthew Semelsberger26 sig landed
HEAD31%8 of 41BODY42%11 of 16LEGS27%7 of 10
29 of 49
Sig.
strikes
26 of 67
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:19
Control
1:34
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 26Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Morono firstSteve Armstrong9–10Kent Basinger10–9Seth Fuller9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Alex MoronoMatthew Semelsberger
Official totals — Alex Morono first
JudgeTotal
Steve Armstrong29–28
Kent Basinger30–27
Seth Fuller29–28

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 — 15 scored, Alex Morono first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morono · 71%29-28 Semelsberger · 14%30-27 Morono · 8%29-27 Morono · 3%

65 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.

Alex Morono

0.32takedowns / 15 min
0.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.01 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.77 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
57%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Matthew Semelsberger

1.01takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Alex Morono↓ −11.0pp
open 50.0%close 39.0%
Matthew Semelsberger↑ +11.0pp
open 50.0%close 61.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alex Morono opened at 50.0% and closed at 39.0% (−11.0pp), with Matthew Semelsberger 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
Alex Morono-11014650.0%39.0%−11.0pp
Matthew Semelsberger-110-17450.0%61.0%+11.0pp
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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