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Events · UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Don'Tale Mayes vs Caio Machado
From the tape · 27 Apr 2024

Don'Tale Mayes vs Caio Machado

UFC Fight Night: Nicolau vs. Perez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Don'Tale Mayes beat Caio Machado

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 Don'TaleMayes“Lord Kong”Bronx Hill MMA · Louisville, Kentucky
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CaioMachado“Bigfoot”RD Champions · Olinda, Pernambuco
Heavyweight3 rounds27 Apr 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than Mayes.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Machado.
11-9
Record
8-4-1
32
Age
−3 yr29
+2″6' 6"
Height
6' 4"
+3″81″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+78
UFC bouts
1
Bronx Hill MMA
Gym
RD Champions
Louisville, Kentucky
From
Olinda, Pernambuco
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⚡ 1 KD Mayes
Don'Tale Mayes20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 39BODY35%7 of 12LEGS5%1 of 4
Caio Machado19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 23BODY32%6 of 8LEGS37%7 of 9
20 of 55
Sig.
strikes
19 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mayes firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Don'Tale Mayes26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 50BODY15%4 of 6LEGS15%4 of 5
Caio Machado25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 38BODY28%7 of 9LEGS20%5 of 6
26 of 61
Sig.
strikes
25 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mayes firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Don'Tale Mayes21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 51BODY33%7 of 11LEGS10%2 of 5
Caio Machado32 sig landed
HEAD44%14 of 42BODY38%12 of 16LEGS19%6 of 8
21 of 67
Sig.
strikes
32 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mayes firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Don'Tale MayesCaio Machado
Official totals — Don'Tale Mayes first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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, Don'Tale Mayes first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Machado · 55%29-28 Mayes · 37%29-27 Mayes · 3%30-28 Machado · 2%30-27 Mayes · 2%

62 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.

Don'Tale Mayes

0.59takedowns / 15 min
0.59 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
38%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Caio Machado

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Don'Tale Mayes↓ −16.2pp
open 62.2%close 46.0%
Caio Machado↑ +16.2pp
open 37.8%close 54.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Don'Tale Mayes opened at 62.2% and closed at 46.0% (−16.2pp), with Caio Machado 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
Don'Tale Mayes-18510862.2%46.0%−16.2pp
Caio Machado154-12937.8%54.0%+16.2pp
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% · 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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