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Events · UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · Brandon Moreno vs Alexandre Pantoja
From the tape · 8 Jul 2023

Brandon Moreno vs Alexandre Pantoja

UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alexandre Pantoja beat Brandon Moreno

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Flyweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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
Blue corner AlexandrePantoja“The Cannibal”American Top Team · Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
Flyweight Title5 rounds8 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
23-10-2
Record
30-6
−4 yr29
Age
33
+2″5' 7"
Height
5' 5"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+214
UFC bouts
12
6/967% of wins
Finishes
6/967% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
American Top Team
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Pantoja
Brandon Moreno22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 30BODY9%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Alexandre Pantoja28 sig landed
HEAD82%23 of 43BODY14%4 of 5LEGS4%1 of 2
22 of 32
Sig.
strikes
28 of 50
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:37
Control
1:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 5
Judges · this round · Moreno firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Moreno41 sig landed
HEAD90%37 of 73BODY10%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Alexandre Pantoja33 sig landed
HEAD82%27 of 67BODY18%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
41 of 77
Sig.
strikes
33 of 74
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:23
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Moreno firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Brandon Moreno26 sig landed
HEAD92%24 of 45BODY4%1 of 1LEGS4%1 of 1
Alexandre Pantoja23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 39BODY35%8 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
26 of 47
Sig.
strikes
23 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:37
Control
2:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 6
Judges · this round · Moreno firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Brandon Moreno31 sig landed
HEAD87%27 of 44BODY13%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Alexandre Pantoja20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 47BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 2
31 of 48
Sig.
strikes
20 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:24
Control
3:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brandon Moreno27 sig landed
HEAD93%25 of 39BODY7%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Alexandre Pantoja25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 51BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 41
Sig.
strikes
25 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Brandon MorenoAlexandre Pantoja
Official totals — Brandon Moreno first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide49–46
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide47–48
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide47–48

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 — 30 scored, Brandon Moreno first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com45–49
Jake Noecker The Scrap News46–49
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com46–49
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com46–49
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv46–49
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks46–49
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com46–49
Scott Fontana New York Post46–49
Paul Delos Santos The Sporting Tribune46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com46–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com46–49
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com46–49
Alex Behunin MMA Mania46–49
MM AMania.com46–49
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Dan Urban Couchside Judges47–48
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Combat Press.com47–48
Bloody Elbow.com48–47
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily48–47
E. Casey Leydon48–47
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com48–47
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Pantoja · 45%48-47 Pantoja · 30%48-47 Moreno · 17%49-46 Moreno · 3%49-45 Pantoja · 1%

1,197 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.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.79 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
47%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Alexandre Pantoja

2.79takedowns / 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 Moreno↑ +2.1pp
open 61.3%close 63.4%
Alexandre Pantoja↓ −2.1pp
open 38.7%close 36.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Moreno opened at 61.3% and closed at 63.4% (+2.1pp), with Alexandre Pantoja 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
Brandon Moreno-186-19461.3%63.4%+2.1pp
Alexandre Pantoja14416338.7%36.6%−2.1pp
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% · dated 2023-07-09 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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