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History · 2023 · UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 · Chris Duncan vs Omar Morales
From the tape · 18 Mar 2023

Chris Duncan vs Omar Morales

UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Chris Duncan beat Omar Morales

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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 ChrisDuncan“The Problem”American Top Team · Alloa, East Ayrshire
VSOn the tape
OM
Blue corner OmarMorales“Venezuelan Fighter”The Goat Shed Academy · Caracas, Capital District
Lightweight3 rounds18 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Morales.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Duncan.
15-3
Record
11-4
−8 yr29
Age
37
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team
Gym
The Goat Shed Academy
Alloa, East Ayrshire
From
Caracas, Capital District
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
Chris Duncan24 sig landed
HEAD25%6 of 13BODY25%6 of 8LEGS50%12 of 19
Omar Morales26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 34BODY8%2 of 2LEGS23%6 of 6
24 of 40
Sig.
strikes
26 of 42
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Duncan firstBen Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Chris Duncan14 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 4BODY36%5 of 7LEGS57%8 of 13
Omar Morales7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY29%2 of 2LEGS14%1 of 1
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:02
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Duncan firstBen Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chris Duncan15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 8BODY40%6 of 6LEGS27%4 of 5
Omar Morales14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 16BODY7%1 of 2LEGS21%3 of 3
15 of 19
Sig.
strikes
14 of 21
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Duncan firstBen Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Chris DuncanOmar Morales
Official totals — Chris Duncan first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide27–30

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 — 19 scored, Chris Duncan first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Shane Clifford Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jake Noecker BetQL28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Duncan · 47%29-28 Morales · 36%30-27 Morales · 8%30-27 Duncan · 7%

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.

Chris Duncan

2.92takedowns / 15 min
2.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.46 / 15m
7.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.46 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
100%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Omar Morales

0.46takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Chris Duncan↑ +3.2pp
open 46.8%close 50.0%
Omar Morales↓ −3.2pp
open 53.2%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Duncan opened at 46.8% and closed at 50.0% (+3.2pp), with Omar Morales 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
Chris Duncan105-11046.8%50.0%+3.2pp
Omar Morales-125-11053.2%50.0%−3.2pp
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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