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History · 2024 · UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Brad Katona vs Garrett Armfield
From the tape · 20 Jan 2024

Brad Katona vs Garrett Armfield

UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Garrett Armfield beat Brad Katona

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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 BradKatona“Superman”SBG Ireland · Winnipeg, Manitoba
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GarrettArmfieldSpringfield Fight Club · Springfield, Missouri
Bantamweight3 rounds20 Jan 2024
16-5
Record
10-5
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
64″
Reach
+6″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+35
UFC bouts
2
0/30% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
SBG Ireland
Gym
Springfield Fight Club
Winnipeg, Manitoba
From
Springfield, Missouri
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
Brad Katona20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 41BODY5%1 of 2LEGS25%5 of 5
Garrett Armfield31 sig landed
HEAD52%16 of 33BODY26%8 of 11LEGS23%7 of 7
20 of 48
Sig.
strikes
31 of 51
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Katona firstEric Colón9–10Kyle Costello9–10Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Katona25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 60BODY16%4 of 4LEGS4%1 of 2
Garrett Armfield41 sig landed
HEAD68%28 of 50BODY24%10 of 13LEGS7%3 of 3
25 of 66
Sig.
strikes
41 of 66
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Katona firstEric Colón9–10Kyle Costello9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brad Katona19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 37BODY16%3 of 3LEGS5%1 of 1
Garrett Armfield33 sig landed
HEAD91%30 of 48BODY9%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 41
Sig.
strikes
33 of 51
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:54
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Katona firstEric Colón10–9Kyle Costello10–9Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Brad KatonaGarrett Armfield
Official totals — Brad Katona first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Kyle Costello28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 13 scored, Brad Katona first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Katona · 47%29-28 Armfield · 42%30-27 Katona · 6%30-27 Armfield · 3%

118 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.

Brad Katona

1.86takedowns / 15 min
1.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.10 / 15m
5.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.20 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Garrett Armfield

1.10takedowns / 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.

Brad Katona↑ +11.2pp
open 54.3%close 65.5%
Garrett Armfield↓ −11.2pp
open 45.7%close 34.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Katona opened at 54.3% and closed at 65.5% (+11.2pp), with Garrett Armfield 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
Brad Katona-130-21354.3%65.5%+11.2pp
Garrett Armfield11017945.7%34.5%−11.2pp
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% · dated 2024-01-21 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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