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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy · Edson Barboza vs Lerone Murphy
From the tape · 18 May 2024

Edson Barboza vs Lerone Murphy

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Lerone Murphy beat Edson Barboza

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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 EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LeroneMurphy“The Miracle”Manchester Top Team · Stockport
Featherweight5 rounds18 May 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
24-15
Record
17-1-1
38
Age
−6 yr32
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2329
UFC bouts
6
+10%9/1850% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Manchester Top Team
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Stockport
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
Edson Barboza25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 39BODY8%2 of 2LEGS36%9 of 12
Lerone Murphy34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 52BODY18%6 of 8LEGS6%2 of 2
25 of 53
Sig.
strikes
34 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:14
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Edson Barboza17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 31BODY29%5 of 5LEGS41%7 of 8
Lerone Murphy41 sig landed
HEAD88%36 of 69BODY10%4 of 5LEGS2%1 of 1
17 of 44
Sig.
strikes
41 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:26
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Edson Barboza11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 32BODY18%2 of 5LEGS36%4 of 5
Lerone Murphy48 sig landed
HEAD83%40 of 70BODY12%6 of 7LEGS4%2 of 2
11 of 42
Sig.
strikes
48 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:17
Control
1:25
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Edson Barboza15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 46BODY27%4 of 5LEGS27%4 of 5
Lerone Murphy59 sig landed
HEAD71%42 of 75BODY12%7 of 8LEGS17%10 of 10
15 of 56
Sig.
strikes
59 of 93
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:25
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 58Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Edson Barboza11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 41BODY18%2 of 4LEGS18%2 of 2
Lerone Murphy38 sig landed
HEAD74%28 of 42BODY11%4 of 6LEGS16%6 of 7
11 of 47
Sig.
strikes
38 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
1:49
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Edson BarbozaLerone Murphy
Official totals — Edson Barboza first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide46–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide45–50
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide45–50

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 — 14 scored, Edson Barboza first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com44–50
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com45–50
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com45–50
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com45–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com45–50
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com45–50
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com45–49
Jake Noecker Cageside Press45–49
MM AUncensored.com45–49
Combat Press.com46–49
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–49
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Murphy · 32%49-46 Murphy · 29%50-44 Murphy · 14%49-45 Murphy · 9%48-47 Murphy · 7%

69 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.

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.20 / 15m
0.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.22 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
54%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Lerone Murphy

1.20takedowns / 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.

Edson Barboza↓ −3.3pp
open 43.7%close 40.4%
Lerone Murphy↑ +3.3pp
open 56.3%close 59.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Edson Barboza opened at 43.7% and closed at 40.4% (−3.3pp), with Lerone Murphy 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
Edson Barboza12013743.7%40.4%−3.3pp
Lerone Murphy-142-16556.3%59.6%+3.3pp
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 2024-05-19 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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