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Events · UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez · Kamuela Kirk vs Esteban Ribovics
From the tape · 8 Jul 2023

Kamuela Kirk vs Esteban Ribovics

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

Esteban Ribovics beat Kamuela Kirk

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

KK
Red corner KamuelaKirk“The Jawaiian”Siege MMA · Peoria, Arizona
VSOn the tape
Blue corner EstebanRibovics“El Gringo”Kill Cliff FC · Tartagal, Salta
Lightweight3 rounds8 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ribovics.
  • Lands 4.0 more significant strikes a minute than Kirk.
12-6
Record
16-3
29
Age
−2 yr27
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+6″75″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Siege MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Peoria, Arizona
From
Tartagal, Salta
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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 action1 sub attempt
Kamuela Kirk2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Esteban Ribovics1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
2 of 2
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:37
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kirk firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Kamuela Kirk35 sig landed
HEAD57%20 of 50BODY26%9 of 11LEGS17%6 of 6
Esteban Ribovics65 sig landed
HEAD89%58 of 109BODY9%6 of 8LEGS2%1 of 1
35 of 67
Sig.
strikes
65 of 118
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:46
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 55Clinch 4Ground 6
Judges · this round · Kirk firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kamuela Kirk19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 32BODY16%3 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Esteban Ribovics49 sig landed
HEAD73%36 of 68BODY22%11 of 12LEGS4%2 of 2
19 of 38
Sig.
strikes
49 of 82
2 of 9
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:43
Control
0:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 6Ground 7
Judges · this round · Kirk firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Kamuela KirkEsteban Ribovics
Official totals — Kamuela Kirk first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Kamuela Kirk first · unofficial

Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–29
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Paul Delos Santos The Sporting Tribune28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jake Noecker The Scrap News28–29
Drew Beaupre MMANews.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ribovics · 70%28-27 Ribovics · 14%29-27 Ribovics · 4%29-28 Kirk · 2%

66 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.

Kamuela Kirk

1.50takedowns / 15 min
1.50 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.35 / 15m
5.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.53 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
66%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Esteban Ribovics

0.35takedowns / 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.

Kamuela Kirk↑ +3.2pp
open 37.5%close 40.7%
Esteban Ribovics↓ −3.2pp
open 62.5%close 59.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kamuela Kirk opened at 37.5% and closed at 40.7% (+3.2pp), with Esteban Ribovics 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
Kamuela Kirk15013537.5%40.7%+3.2pp
Esteban Ribovics-200-16462.5%59.3%−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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