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Events · UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 · Ricky Simon vs Vinicius Oliveira
From the tape · 29 Jun 2024

Ricky Simon vs Vinicius Oliveira

UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Vinicius Oliveira beat Ricky Simon

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 RickySimonAmerican Top Team Portland · Vancouver, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ViniciusOliveiraSombra Team · Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Bantamweight3 rounds29 Jun 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Simon.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
22-7-1
Record
24-4
31
Age
−3 yr28
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1112
UFC bouts
1
4/850% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
American Top Team Portland
Gym
Sombra Team
Vancouver, Washington
From
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
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
Ricky Simon14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 21BODY21%3 of 3LEGS14%2 of 2
Vinicius Oliveira28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 56BODY11%3 of 4LEGS36%10 of 14
14 of 26
Sig.
strikes
28 of 74
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:06
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simon firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ricky Simon17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 30BODY41%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Vinicius Oliveira28 sig landed
HEAD39%11 of 57BODY25%7 of 8LEGS36%10 of 12
17 of 39
Sig.
strikes
28 of 77
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simon firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricky Simon11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 25BODY18%2 of 4LEGS18%2 of 2
Vinicius Oliveira40 sig landed
HEAD68%27 of 71BODY25%10 of 12LEGS8%3 of 3
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
40 of 86
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
0:10
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Simon firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro 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
Ricky SimonVinicius Oliveira
Official totals — Ricky Simon first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 17 scored, Ricky Simon first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Ben Davis27–30
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks27–30
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Oliveira · 66%29-28 Oliveira · 28%29-28 Simon · 5%30-27 Simon · 2%

58 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.

Ricky Simon

4.49takedowns / 15 min
4.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.45 / 15m
10.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.15 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
46%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Vinicius Oliveira

1.45takedowns / 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.

Ricky Simon↑ +6.9pp
open 60.9%close 67.8%
Vinicius Oliveira↓ −6.9pp
open 39.1%close 32.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricky Simon opened at 60.9% and closed at 67.8% (+6.9pp), with Vinicius Oliveira 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
Ricky Simon-175-24660.9%67.8%+6.9pp
Vinicius Oliveira14519639.1%32.2%−6.9pp
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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