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History · 2023 · UFC 286: Edwards vs. Usman 3 · Lerone Murphy vs Gabriel Santos
From the tape · 18 Mar 2023

Lerone Murphy vs Gabriel Santos

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

Lerone Murphy beat Gabriel Santos

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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 LeroneMurphy“The Miracle”Manchester Top Team · Stockport
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GabrielSantos“Mosquitinho”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · Fortaleza, Ceara
Featherweight3 rounds18 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 43 points more takedown defence than Murphy.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
17-1-1
Record
12-2
31
Age
−5 yr26
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Manchester Top Team
Gym
Chute Boxe Diego Lima
Stockport
From
Fortaleza, Ceara
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
Lerone Murphy33 sig landed
HEAD55%18 of 39BODY36%12 of 16LEGS9%3 of 3
Gabriel Santos36 sig landed
HEAD44%16 of 31BODY36%13 of 16LEGS19%7 of 7
33 of 58
Sig.
strikes
36 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:59
Control
0:39
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Murphy firstMark Collett9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Lerone Murphy25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 30BODY40%10 of 12LEGS8%2 of 2
Gabriel Santos13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 22BODY23%3 of 8LEGS15%2 of 2
25 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 32
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:14
Control
1:45
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Murphy firstMark Collett9–10Vito Paolillo10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Lerone Murphy35 sig landed
HEAD80%28 of 48BODY14%5 of 9LEGS6%2 of 2
Gabriel Santos20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 20BODY40%8 of 10LEGS20%4 of 6
35 of 59
Sig.
strikes
20 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:05
Control
1:36
Distance 30Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Murphy firstMark Collett10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Rich Mitchell
Lerone MurphyGabriel Santos
Official totals — Lerone Murphy first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

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 — 19 scored, Lerone Murphy first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Urban Couchside Judges28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Shane Clifford Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Santos · 74%29-28 Murphy · 15%30-27 Santos · 8%30-27 Murphy · 2%30-28 Santos · 1%

218 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.

Lerone Murphy

1.20takedowns / 15 min
1.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.80 / 15m
2.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.04 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
54%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Gabriel Santos

3.80takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Lerone Murphy↓ −8.2pp
open 71.1%close 62.9%
Gabriel Santos↑ +8.2pp
open 28.9%close 37.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Lerone Murphy opened at 71.1% and closed at 62.9% (−8.2pp), with Gabriel Santos 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
Lerone Murphy-275-19171.1%62.9%−8.2pp
Gabriel Santos23515828.9%37.1%+8.2pp
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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