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Events · UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France
From the tape · 30 Jul 2022

Brandon Moreno vs Kai Kara-France

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

Brandon Moreno beat Kai Kara-France

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 5
Clock
4:34
Interim Flyweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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 BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
KK
Blue corner KaiKara-France“Don't Blink”City Kickboxing · Auckland
Interim Flyweight Title5 rounds30 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
23-10-2
Record
25-12
−1 yr28
Age
29
+3″5' 7"
Height
5' 4"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+312
UFC bouts
9
+29%4/757% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
City Kickboxing
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Auckland
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
Brandon Moreno7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 24BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 11BODY10%1 of 2LEGS60%6 of 10
7 of 26
Sig.
strikes
10 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Moreno16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 40BODY25%4 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
Kai Kara-France15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS60%9 of 13
16 of 49
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:26
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 34:34 of action⚡ 1 KD MorenoEnded 4:34
Brandon Moreno35 sig landed
HEAD80%28 of 69BODY17%6 of 6LEGS3%1 of 1
Kai Kara-France28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 37BODY7%2 of 2LEGS39%11 of 12
35 of 76
Sig.
strikes
28 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:06
Control
0:24
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 5

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Brandon Moreno

Round
3
Clock
4:34
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.87 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
30%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kai Kara-France

0.56takedowns / 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 Flyweight

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.

Brandon Morenoclose only
no opening line on recordclose 64.8%
Kai Kara-Franceclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.2%
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: Brandon Moreno 64.8%, Kai Kara-France 35.2%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Brandon Moreno-160-21264.8%
Kai Kara-France17135.2%
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 Kai Kara-France., 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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