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Events · UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Chris Curtis vs Marc-Andre Barriault
From the tape · 20 Jan 2024

Chris Curtis vs Marc-Andre Barriault

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

Chris Curtis beat Marc-Andre Barriault

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Todd Ronald Anderson

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 ChrisCurtis“Action-Man”Xtreme Couture · Cincinnati, Ohio
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Marc-AndreBarriault“Powerbar”Kill Cliff FC · Gatineau, Quebec
Middleweight3 rounds20 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
32-13
Record
17-11
36
Age
−3 yr33
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+411
+15%3/475% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Cincinnati, Ohio
From
Gatineau, Quebec
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
Chris Curtis23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 36BODY22%5 of 9LEGS13%3 of 3
Marc-Andre Barriault18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 35BODY22%4 of 5LEGS33%6 of 6
23 of 48
Sig.
strikes
18 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Declan Woods10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Chris Curtis51 sig landed
HEAD78%40 of 85BODY20%10 of 13LEGS2%1 of 1
Marc-Andre Barriault45 sig landed
HEAD62%28 of 64BODY31%14 of 18LEGS7%3 of 3
51 of 99
Sig.
strikes
45 of 85
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 47Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Declan Woods10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chris Curtis66 sig landed
HEAD70%46 of 89BODY30%20 of 22LEGS0%0 landed
Marc-Andre Barriault59 sig landed
HEAD69%41 of 90BODY25%15 of 19LEGS5%3 of 3
66 of 111
Sig.
strikes
59 of 112
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 46Clinch 20Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 17Ground 0
Judges · this round · Curtis firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Declan Woods10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Todd Ronald Anderson
Chris CurtisMarc-Andre Barriault
Official totals — Chris Curtis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Declan Woods30–27

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 — 18 scored, Chris Curtis first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Curtis · 40%30-27 Curtis · 29%29-28 Barriault · 25%30-27 Barriault · 3%

160 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.

Chris Curtis

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.34 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Marc-Andre Barriault

0.34takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Chris Curtis↑ +9.8pp
open 52.2%close 62.0%
Marc-Andre Barriault↓ −9.8pp
open 47.8%close 38.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Curtis opened at 52.2% and closed at 62.0% (+9.8pp), with Marc-Andre Barriault 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
Chris Curtis-120-18452.2%62.0%+9.8pp
Marc-Andre Barriault10015247.8%38.0%−9.8pp
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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