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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Murphy · Themba Gorimbo vs Ramiz Brahimaj
From the tape · 18 May 2024

Themba Gorimbo vs Ramiz Brahimaj

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

Themba Gorimbo beat Ramiz Brahimaj

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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 ThembaGorimbo“The Answer”MMA Masters · Masvingo
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RamizBrahimajValle Flow Striking · Bronx, New York
Welterweight3 rounds18 May 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brahimaj.
14-7
Record
13-7
33
Age
−2 yr31
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+5″77″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+14
1/250% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
MMA Masters
Gym
Valle Flow Striking
Masvingo
From
Bronx, New York
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
Themba Gorimbo5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 1BODY80%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Ramiz Brahimaj2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 5
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
3:20
Control
1:06
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Themba Gorimbo15 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 2BODY80%12 of 15LEGS13%2 of 3
Ramiz Brahimaj0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

15 of 20
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
3 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:42
Control
1:01
Distance 2Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Themba Gorimbo23 sig landed
HEAD30%7 of 10BODY65%15 of 16LEGS4%1 of 1
Ramiz Brahimaj1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 27
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:11
Control
1:37
Distance 3Clinch 18Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gorimbo firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Themba GorimboRamiz Brahimaj
Official totals — Themba Gorimbo first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27

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 — 11 scored, Themba Gorimbo first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Cageside Press30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gorimbo · 96%29-28 Brahimaj · 4%

23 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.

Themba Gorimbo

4.52takedowns / 15 min
4.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.99 / 15m
7.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.85 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
34%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.60 / 15m

Ramiz Brahimaj

1.99takedowns / 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.

Themba Gorimbo↓ −13.7pp
open 68.5%close 54.9%
Ramiz Brahimaj↑ +13.7pp
open 31.5%close 45.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Themba Gorimbo opened at 68.5% and closed at 54.9% (−13.7pp), with Ramiz Brahimaj 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
Themba Gorimbo-250-13368.5%54.9%−13.7pp
Ramiz Brahimaj20511331.5%45.1%+13.7pp
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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