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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis · Jailton Almeida vs Derrick Lewis
From the tape · 4 Nov 2023

Jailton Almeida vs Derrick Lewis

UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs. Lewis · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Result

Jailton Almeida beat Derrick Lewis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 JailtonAlmeida“Malhadinho”Galpao da Luta · Salvador, Bahia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DerrickLewis“The Black Beast”Main Street Boxing & Muay Thai · Houston, Texas
Heavyweight5 rounds4 Nov 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 14 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Almeida’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 27 UFC bouts deep — 22 more than Almeida.
22-5
Record
29-14
−6 yr32
Age
38
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
79″
Reach
79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+2227
+22%5/5100% of wins
Finishes
14/1878% of wins
Galpao da Luta
Gym
Main Street Boxing & Muay Thai
Salvador, Bahia
From
Houston, Texas
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 action2 sub attempts
Jailton Almeida11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 12BODY27%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Derrick Lewis6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 7BODY33%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 15
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Almeida firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Jailton Almeida6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
Derrick Lewis1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 8
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:19
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstFabio Alves10–8Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jailton Almeida19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 28BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Derrick Lewis5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 29
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:57
Control
0:33
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Almeida firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jailton Almeida2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY50%1 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
Derrick Lewis2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 2
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:23
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Almeida firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jailton Almeida0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

Derrick Lewis6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
0 of 2
Sig.
strikes
6 of 9
2 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:55
Control
0:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Almeida firstFabio Alves10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Jailton AlmeidaDerrick Lewis
Official totals — Jailton Almeida first
JudgeTotal
Fabio Alves2.3 avg spread · 39% wide50–44
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–44
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide50–45

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 — 19 scored, Jailton Almeida first · unofficial

Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com50–40
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com50–40
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas50–42
Jake Noecker Cageside Press50–43
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–44
MM AJunkie.com50–44
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–44
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com50–44
Combat Press.com50–44
MM AMania.com50–44
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Scott Fontana New York Post50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Bloody Elbow.com50–45
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com50–45
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com50–45

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Almeida · 20%50-42 Almeida · 14%50-43 Almeida · 14%50-40 Almeida · 14%50-41 Almeida · 14%

117 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.

Jailton Almeida

5.64takedowns / 15 min
5.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.55 / 15m
10.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.12 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
26%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Derrick Lewis

0.55takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Jailton Almeida→ no move
open 78.9%close 79.2%
Derrick Lewis→ no move
open 21.1%close 20.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jailton Almeida opened at 78.9% and closed at 79.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp 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
Jailton Almeida-500-47078.9%79.2%+0.3pp
Derrick Lewis35036221.1%20.8%−0.3pp
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 2023-11-05 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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