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History · 2024 · UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Sean O'Malley vs Marlon Vera
From the tape · 9 Mar 2024

Sean O'Malley vs Marlon Vera

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

Sean O'Malley beat Marlon Vera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Keith Peterson

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 SeanO'Malley“Suga”Red Hawk Academy · Helena, Montana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
Bantamweight Title5 rounds9 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than O'Malley.
20-3
Record
23-12-1
−2 yr29
Age
31
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Switch
Stance
Switch
11
UFC bouts
+1122
6/967% of wins
Finishes
+7%11/1573% of wins
Red Hawk Academy
Gym
Team Oyama
Helena, Montana
From
Chone, Manabi
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Sean O'Malley27 sig landed
HEAD26%7 of 14BODY37%10 of 12LEGS37%10 of 10
Marlon Vera9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 7BODY11%1 of 5LEGS78%7 of 9
27 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sean O'Malley51 sig landed
HEAD71%36 of 66BODY22%11 of 12LEGS8%4 of 5
Marlon Vera16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 29BODY0%0 of 5LEGS56%9 of 12
51 of 83
Sig.
strikes
16 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 51Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Sean O'Malley35 sig landed
HEAD60%21 of 43BODY37%13 of 14LEGS3%1 of 1
Marlon Vera17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 39BODY24%4 of 8LEGS35%6 of 7
35 of 58
Sig.
strikes
17 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Sean O'Malley56 sig landed
HEAD75%42 of 70BODY20%11 of 11LEGS5%3 of 3
Marlon Vera26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 56BODY19%5 of 11LEGS23%6 of 6
56 of 84
Sig.
strikes
26 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 56Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sean O'Malley61 sig landed
HEAD72%44 of 75BODY26%16 of 19LEGS2%1 of 1
Marlon Vera21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 34BODY19%4 of 6LEGS29%6 of 7
61 of 95
Sig.
strikes
21 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 58Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–8Chris Lee10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Sean O'MalleyMarlon Vera
Official totals — Sean O'Malley first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–45
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–44
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45

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 — 24 scored, Sean O'Malley first · unofficial

Dayne Fox The MMA Draw50–44
MM AMania.com50–44
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com50–44
John Pollock POST Wrestling50–45
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com50–45
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–45
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–45
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection50–45
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated50–45
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Nick Baldwin theScore50–45
Jake Noecker Cageside Press50–45
Combat Press.com50–45
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News50–45
Scott Fontana New York Post50–45
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 O'Malley · 50%50-44 O'Malley · 28%50-43 O'Malley · 10%49-46 O'Malley · 7%50-42 O'Malley · 1%

338 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.

Sean O'Malley

0.24takedowns / 15 min
0.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.47 / 15m
0.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
39%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Marlon Vera

0.47takedowns / 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.

Sean O'Malley↑ +6.2pp
open 63.7%close 69.9%
Marlon Vera↓ −6.2pp
open 36.3%close 30.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sean O'Malley opened at 63.7% and closed at 69.9% (+6.2pp), with Marlon Vera 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
Sean O'Malley-198-26963.7%69.9%+6.2pp
Marlon Vera16421936.3%30.1%−6.2pp
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 2024-03-10 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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