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Events · UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill · Thiago Moises vs Melquizael Costa
From the tape · 21 Jan 2023

Thiago Moises vs Melquizael Costa

UFC 283: Teixeira vs. Hill · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Thiago Moises beat Melquizael Costa

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:05
LightweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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 ThiagoMoisesAmerican Top Team · Indaiatuba, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MelquizaelCosta“Melk Cauthy”Chute Boxe Joao Emilio · Porto de Moz, Para
Lightweight3 rounds21 Jan 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Moises.
19-10
Record
26-8
27
Age
−1 yr26
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
American Top Team
Gym
Chute Boxe Joao Emilio
Indaiatuba, Sao Paulo
From
Porto de Moz, 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Thiago Moises9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 10BODY56%5 of 5LEGS11%1 of 1
Melquizael Costa16 sig landed
HEAD6%1 of 10BODY50%8 of 12LEGS44%7 of 8
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
16 of 30
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:49
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 24:05 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:05
Thiago Moises13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 15BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Melquizael Costa7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 9BODY29%2 of 6LEGS57%4 of 5
13 of 17
Sig.
strikes
7 of 20
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:02
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Thiago Moises

Round
2
Clock
4:05
Method
Submission

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: Osiris Maia.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Thiago Moises

1.37takedowns / 15 min
1.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.53 / 15m
4.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.37 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
35%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Melquizael Costa

1.53takedowns / 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.

Thiago Moises↑ +5.1pp
open 72.4%close 77.5%
Melquizael Costa↓ −5.1pp
open 27.6%close 22.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Moises opened at 72.4% and closed at 77.5% (+5.1pp), with Melquizael Costa 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
Thiago Moises-300-40872.4%77.5%+5.1pp
Melquizael Costa25032827.6%22.5%−5.1pp
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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