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History · 2024 · UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya · Josh Culibao vs Ricardo Ramos
From the tape · 17 Aug 2024

Josh Culibao vs Ricardo Ramos

UFC 305: Du Plessis vs. Adesanya · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Result

Ricardo Ramos beat Josh Culibao

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Matt Wynne

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 JoshCulibao“Kuya”Igor MMA · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RicardoRamosCampinas, Sao Paulo
Featherweight3 rounds17 Aug 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Ramos.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
11-4-1
Record
17-8
30
Age
−1 yr29
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+512
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+10%3/743% of wins
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Campinas, Sao Paulo
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 action1 sub attempt
Josh Culibao10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 13BODY20%2 of 2LEGS50%5 of 6
Ricardo Ramos2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 21BODY0%0 of 2LEGS50%1 of 8
10 of 21
Sig.
strikes
2 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
2:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Culibao firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Christie9–10Mick Meany9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Culibao
Josh Culibao34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 43BODY3%1 of 2LEGS41%14 of 16
Ricardo Ramos10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 28BODY20%2 of 2LEGS30%3 of 3
34 of 61
Sig.
strikes
10 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:28
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Culibao firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Christie10–9Mick Meany10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Culibao26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 35BODY23%6 of 6LEGS8%2 of 4
Ricardo Ramos15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 43BODY27%4 of 7LEGS7%1 of 4
26 of 45
Sig.
strikes
15 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:28
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Culibao firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Christie9–10Mick Meany9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Matt Wynne
Josh CulibaoRicardo Ramos
Official totals — Josh Culibao first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Mark Christie28–29
Mick Meany28–29

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, Josh Culibao first · unofficial

Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Culibao · 53%29-28 Ramos · 26%29-27 Culibao · 9%30-27 Culibao · 2%

174 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.

Josh Culibao

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.51 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.40 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
57%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ricardo Ramos

2.51takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Josh Culibao↓ −6.2pp
open 60.0%close 53.8%
Ricardo Ramos↑ +6.2pp
open 40.0%close 46.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Culibao opened at 60.0% and closed at 53.8% (−6.2pp), with Ricardo Ramos 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
Josh Culibao-166-13060.0%53.8%−6.2pp
Ricardo Ramos14010640.0%46.2%+6.2pp
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% · dated 2024-08-18 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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