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History · 2024 · UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry
From the tape · 17 Feb 2024

Geoff Neal vs Ian Machado Garry

UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Ian Machado Garry beat Geoff Neal

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Frank Trigg

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 GeoffNeal“Handz of Steel”Harker Heights, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Ian MachadoGarry
Welterweight3 rounds17 Feb 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Garry.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
16-8
Record
17-2
33
Age
−7 yr26
5' 11"
Height
+4″6' 3"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+410
UFC bouts
6
+21%5/771% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
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
Geoff Neal18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 20BODY11%2 of 2LEGS28%5 of 5
Ian Machado Garry20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 24BODY35%7 of 10LEGS15%3 of 4
18 of 27
Sig.
strikes
20 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:10
Control
0:06
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Neal firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Felicia Oh9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Geoff Neal17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 24BODY24%4 of 6LEGS18%3 of 4
Ian Machado Garry23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 34BODY22%5 of 7LEGS9%2 of 2
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
23 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:20
Control
0:06
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Neal firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Felicia Oh9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Geoff Neal11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 20BODY36%4 of 5LEGS27%3 of 3
Ian Machado Garry24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 38BODY25%6 of 10LEGS21%5 of 6
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
24 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:15
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Neal firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Felicia Oh9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Frank Trigg
Geoff NealIan Machado Garry
Official totals — Geoff Neal first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Felicia Oh27–30

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 — 25 scored, Geoff Neal first · unofficial

Val Dewar Cageside Press27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Jake Noecker Cageside Press27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Neal · 47%29-28 Garry · 31%30-27 Garry · 15%30-27 Neal · 5%

610 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.

Geoff Neal

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.92 / 15m
1.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.97 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
31%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Ian Machado Garry

0.92takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Geoff Neal↓ −4.9pp
open 35.5%close 30.5%
Ian Machado Garry↑ +4.9pp
open 64.5%close 69.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Geoff Neal opened at 35.5% and closed at 30.5% (−4.9pp), with Ian Machado Garry 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
Geoff Neal16321435.5%30.5%−4.9pp
Ian Machado Garry-225-26364.5%69.5%+4.9pp
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 2024-02-18 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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