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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Clay Guida vs Rafa Garcia
From the tape · 15 Apr 2023

Clay Guida vs Rafa Garcia

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Result

Rafa Garcia beat Clay Guida

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dwayne Bess

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.

CG
Red corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RafaGarcia“Gifted”Mexicali, Baja California
Lightweight3 rounds15 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Guida.
  • 34 UFC bouts deep — 28 more than Garcia.
38-22
Record
19-4
41
Age
−13 yr28
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2834
UFC bouts
6
+6%7/1839% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Round Lake, Illinois
From
Mexicali, Baja California
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
Clay Guida23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 82BODY9%2 of 4LEGS22%5 of 6
Rafa Garcia34 sig landed
HEAD85%29 of 81BODY3%1 of 4LEGS12%4 of 4
23 of 92
Sig.
strikes
34 of 89
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ross Swanberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Clay Guida21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 80BODY5%1 of 4LEGS14%3 of 4
Rafa Garcia65 sig landed
HEAD97%63 of 107BODY3%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 88
Sig.
strikes
65 of 110
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 62Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ross Swanberg9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Clay Guida19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 65BODY5%1 of 4LEGS11%2 of 3
Rafa Garcia42 sig landed
HEAD90%38 of 81BODY5%2 of 5LEGS5%2 of 2
19 of 72
Sig.
strikes
42 of 88
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:20
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Guida firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ross Swanberg9–10

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 · Dwayne Bess
Clay GuidaRafa Garcia
Official totals — Clay Guida first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Ross Swanberg27–30

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 — 17 scored, Clay Guida first · unofficial

Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jake Noecker The Scrap News27–30
Jillian DeCoursey27–30
Dan Urban Couchside Judges27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Alex Behunin MMA Mania27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Combat Press.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Garcia · 77%30-26 Garcia · 10%29-28 Garcia · 10%30-25 Guida · 3%

39 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.

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.22 / 15m
8.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.16 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
45%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Rafa Garcia

3.22takedowns / 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.

Clay Guida↓ −12.1pp
open 40.4%close 28.3%
Rafa Garcia↑ +12.1pp
open 59.6%close 71.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Clay Guida opened at 40.4% and closed at 28.3% (−12.1pp), with Rafa Garcia 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
Clay Guida14023740.4%28.3%−12.1pp
Rafa Garcia-160-30559.6%71.7%+12.1pp
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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