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History · 2024 · UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier · Niko Price vs Alex Morono
From the tape · 1 Jun 2024

Niko Price vs Alex Morono

UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Niko Price beat Alex Morono

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · 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 NikoPrice“The Hybrid”Futures MMA · Cape Coral, Florida
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexMorono“The Great White”Houston, Texas
Welterweight3 rounds1 Jun 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 4 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Price.
16-11
Record
24-13
34
Age
−1 yr33
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
16
UFC bouts
+420
+55%6/786% of wins
Finishes
4/1331% of wins
Cape Coral, Florida
From
Houston, Texas
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
Niko Price16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 45BODY25%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
Alex Morono34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 63BODY12%4 of 4LEGS12%4 of 5
16 of 51
Sig.
strikes
34 of 72
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:10
Control
0:29
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Price firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Niko Price34 sig landed
HEAD65%22 of 48BODY24%8 of 12LEGS12%4 of 5
Alex Morono21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 40BODY5%1 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
34 of 65
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:04
Control
0:27
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Price firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Niko Price58 sig landed
HEAD76%44 of 88BODY21%12 of 16LEGS3%2 of 4
Alex Morono41 sig landed
HEAD71%29 of 81BODY20%8 of 9LEGS10%4 of 5
58 of 108
Sig.
strikes
41 of 95
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 48Clinch 6Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Price firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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
Niko PriceAlex Morono
Official totals — Niko Price first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 16 scored, Niko Price first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Price · 82%30-27 Price · 9%29-28 Morono · 4%

44 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.

Niko Price

1.06takedowns / 15 min
1.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
3.53 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.33 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
24%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Alex Morono

0.32takedowns / 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.

Niko Price→ no move
open 29.5%close 29.4%
Alex Morono→ no move
open 70.5%close 70.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Niko Price opened at 29.5% and closed at 29.4% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Niko Price22522429.5%29.4%−0.1pp
Alex Morono-278-28770.5%70.6%+0.1pp
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 2024-06-02 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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