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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Ricky Simon vs Mario Bautista
From the tape · 13 Jan 2024

Ricky Simon vs Mario Bautista

UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Mario Bautista beat Ricky Simon

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 RickySimonAmerican Top Team Portland · Vancouver, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarioBautistaMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds13 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bautista.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
22-7-1
Record
18-3
31
Age
−1 yr30
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+211
UFC bouts
9
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+7%4/757% of wins
American Top Team Portland
Gym
MMA Lab
Vancouver, Washington
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 action
Ricky Simon9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS44%4 of 5
Mario Bautista18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 38BODY39%7 of 9LEGS11%2 of 6
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
18 of 53
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simon firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ricky Simon21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 41BODY19%4 of 4LEGS14%3 of 3
Mario Bautista38 sig landed
HEAD63%24 of 70BODY29%11 of 17LEGS8%3 of 3
21 of 48
Sig.
strikes
38 of 90
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simon firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricky Simon15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 43BODY0%0 landedLEGS7%1 of 1
Mario Bautista56 sig landed
HEAD77%43 of 111BODY23%13 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 44
Sig.
strikes
56 of 127
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:01
Control
0:14
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 54Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simon firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Ricky SimonMario Bautista
Official totals — Ricky Simon first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30

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 — 19 scored, Ricky Simon first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks27–30
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Val Dewar Cageside Press28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bautista · 62%30-27 Bautista · 30%29-28 Simon · 5%30-28 Bautista · 2%

40 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.

Ricky Simon

4.49takedowns / 15 min
4.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.91 / 15m
10.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
38%
0.30 / 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.

Ricky Simon↑ +12.0pp
open 50.0%close 62.0%
Mario Bautista↓ −12.0pp
open 50.0%close 38.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricky Simon opened at 50.0% and closed at 62.0% (+12.0pp), 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
Ricky Simon-110-18750.0%62.0%+12.0pp
Mario Bautista-11015050.0%38.0%−12.0pp
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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