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Events · UFC 292: Sterling vs. O'Malley · Marlon Vera vs Pedro Munhoz
From the tape · 19 Aug 2023

Marlon Vera vs Pedro Munhoz

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

Marlon Vera beat Pedro Munhoz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PedroMunhoz“The Young Punisher”American Top Team · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Bantamweight3 rounds19 Aug 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Vera.
23-12-1
Record
20-10
−6 yr30
Age
36
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+5″70″
Reach
65″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+221
UFC bouts
19
+19%11/1479% of wins
Finishes
6/1060% of wins
Team Oyama
Gym
American Top Team
Chone, Manabi
From
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
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
Marlon Vera39 sig landed
HEAD69%27 of 51BODY8%3 of 5LEGS23%9 of 10
Pedro Munhoz38 sig landed
HEAD37%14 of 44BODY21%8 of 11LEGS42%16 of 16
39 of 66
Sig.
strikes
38 of 71
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstBen Cartlidge10–9Nick Mahmood10–9Marcel Varela10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marlon Vera49 sig landed
HEAD76%37 of 71BODY4%2 of 3LEGS20%10 of 10
Pedro Munhoz45 sig landed
HEAD51%23 of 64BODY16%7 of 11LEGS33%15 of 16
49 of 84
Sig.
strikes
45 of 91
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 49Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstBen Cartlidge9–10Nick Mahmood10–9Marcel Varela10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marlon Vera53 sig landed
HEAD85%45 of 90BODY8%4 of 6LEGS8%4 of 5
Pedro Munhoz30 sig landed
HEAD53%16 of 69BODY17%5 of 6LEGS30%9 of 9
53 of 101
Sig.
strikes
30 of 84
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 51Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstBen Cartlidge10–9Nick Mahmood10–9Marcel Varela10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Marlon VeraPedro Munhoz
Official totals — Marlon Vera first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Nick Mahmood30–27
Marcel Varela30–27

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, Marlon Vera first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
E. Casey Leydon28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Munhoz · 51%29-28 Vera · 33%30-27 Vera · 11%30-27 Munhoz · 1%29-27 Vera · 1%

461 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.

Marlon Vera

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.48 / 15m
1.21 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.00 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
16%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Pedro Munhoz

0.48takedowns / 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.

Marlon Vera→ no move
open 62.2%close 61.8%
Pedro Munhoz→ no move
open 37.8%close 38.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Marlon Vera opened at 62.2% and closed at 61.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Marlon Vera-185-18262.2%61.8%−0.4pp
Pedro Munhoz15415137.8%38.2%+0.4pp
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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