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History · 2024 · UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Ion Cutelaba vs Philipe Lins
From the tape · 9 Mar 2024

Ion Cutelaba vs Philipe Lins

UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Philipe Lins beat Ion Cutelaba

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 IonCutelaba“The Hulk”Chisinau
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PhilipeLins“Monstro”American Top Team · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Light Heavyweight3 rounds9 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Lins.
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Cutelaba.
20-12-1
Record
18-5
−8 yr30
Age
38
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1015
UFC bouts
5
+33%4/667% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Chisinau
From
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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
Ion Cutelaba23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 32BODY22%5 of 5LEGS17%4 of 5
Philipe Lins33 sig landed
HEAD48%16 of 31BODY9%3 of 4LEGS42%14 of 15
23 of 42
Sig.
strikes
33 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:01
Control
0:22
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cutelaba firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ion Cutelaba13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 15BODY31%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Philipe Lins19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 21BODY5%1 of 1LEGS37%7 of 7
13 of 20
Sig.
strikes
19 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:13
Control
2:26
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Cutelaba firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ion Cutelaba11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Philipe Lins15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 30BODY20%3 of 4LEGS13%2 of 2
11 of 35
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:02
Control
2:46
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cutelaba firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Ion CutelabaPhilipe Lins
Official totals — Ion Cutelaba first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 12 scored, Ion Cutelaba first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lins · 51%29-28 Lins · 35%29-28 Cutelaba · 10%

49 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.

Ion Cutelaba

3.76takedowns / 15 min
3.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.65 / 15m
7.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.00 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Philipe Lins

1.65takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Ion Cutelaba↑ +2.5pp
open 54.3%close 56.8%
Philipe Lins↓ −2.5pp
open 45.7%close 43.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ion Cutelaba opened at 54.3% and closed at 56.8% (+2.5pp), with Philipe Lins 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
Ion Cutelaba-130-14554.3%56.8%+2.5pp
Philipe Lins11012245.7%43.2%−2.5pp
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 2024-03-10 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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