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Events · UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley · Da'Mon Blackshear vs Mario Bautista
From the tape · 19 Aug 2023

Da'Mon Blackshear vs Mario Bautista

UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Mario Bautista beat Da'Mon Blackshear

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Bryan Miner

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 Da'MonBlackshear“The Monster”Kill Cliff FC · Fayetteville, North Carolina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarioBautistaMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds19 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Bautista.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
17-8-1
Record
18-3
−1 yr29
Age
30
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+3″72″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Switch
4
UFC bouts
+48
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
MMA Lab
Fayetteville, North Carolina
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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 action1 sub attempt
Da'Mon Blackshear29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 27BODY38%11 of 14LEGS24%7 of 7
Mario Bautista19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 17BODY16%3 of 3LEGS26%5 of 5
29 of 48
Sig.
strikes
19 of 25
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:19
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 15Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Steve Rita9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Da'Mon Blackshear40 sig landed
HEAD62%25 of 54BODY18%7 of 11LEGS20%8 of 9
Mario Bautista32 sig landed
HEAD69%22 of 55BODY25%8 of 9LEGS6%2 of 3
40 of 74
Sig.
strikes
32 of 67
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:27
Control
1:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 17Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Steve Rita9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Da'Mon Blackshear21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 42BODY19%4 of 5LEGS24%5 of 5
Mario Bautista28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 31BODY36%10 of 10LEGS11%3 of 4
21 of 52
Sig.
strikes
28 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:05
Control
2:44
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 7Ground 4
Judges · this round · Blackshear firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Steve Rita9–10

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 · Bryan Miner
Da'Mon BlackshearMario Bautista
Official totals — Da'Mon Blackshear first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Steve Rita27–30

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 — 15 scored, Da'Mon Blackshear first · unofficial

Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Blackshear · 76%29-28 Bautista · 20%30-27 Blackshear · 1%30-27 Bautista · 1%

279 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.

Da'Mon Blackshear

1.48takedowns / 15 min
1.48 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.91 / 15m
4.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
38%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Mario Bautista

1.91takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Da'Mon Blackshear↑ +1.5pp
open 33.0%close 34.5%
Mario Bautista↓ −1.5pp
open 67.0%close 65.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Da'Mon Blackshear opened at 33.0% and closed at 34.5% (+1.5pp), with Mario Bautista 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
Da'Mon Blackshear18617733.0%34.5%+1.5pp
Mario Bautista-245-21767.0%65.5%−1.5pp
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 2023-08-20 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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