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Events · UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC · Brian Ortega vs Diego Lopes
From the tape · 14 Sep 2024

Brian Ortega vs Diego Lopes

UFC 306: Riyadh Season Noche UFC · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Diego Lopes beat Brian Ortega

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 BrianOrtega“T-City”Torrance, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DiegoLopesLobo Gym MMA · Manaus, Amazonas
Featherweight3 rounds14 Sep 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Lopes.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
16-5
Record
28-8
33
Age
−4 yr29
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+712
UFC bouts
5
+12%7/888% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Torrance, California
From
Manaus, Amazonas
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
Brian Ortega15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 41BODY7%1 of 1LEGS20%3 of 3
Diego Lopes29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 50BODY7%2 of 3LEGS10%3 of 4
15 of 45
Sig.
strikes
29 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:03
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 15
Judges · this round · Ortega firstMichael Bell8–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brian Ortega16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 42BODY6%1 of 3LEGS19%3 of 3
Diego Lopes22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 35BODY5%1 of 1LEGS45%10 of 10
16 of 48
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:07
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ortega firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brian Ortega32 sig landed
HEAD91%29 of 97BODY6%2 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
Diego Lopes55 sig landed
HEAD73%40 of 87BODY18%10 of 11LEGS9%5 of 5
32 of 102
Sig.
strikes
55 of 103
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:35
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 4Ground 10
Judges · this round · Ortega firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Brian OrtegaDiego Lopes
Official totals — Brian Ortega first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell26–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 19 scored, Brian Ortega first · unofficial

Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Scott Fontana New York Post27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Jake Noecker Cageside Press27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Nick Baldwin theScore27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Lopes · 46%30-26 Lopes · 41%30-25 Lopes · 7%30-24 Lopes · 1%29-27 Lopes · 1%

189 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.

Brian Ortega

0.93takedowns / 15 min
0.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.88 / 15m
3.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.76 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
50%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Diego Lopes

0.88takedowns / 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.

Brian Ortega↓ −7.1pp
open 43.1%close 36.0%
Diego Lopes↑ +7.1pp
open 56.9%close 64.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brian Ortega opened at 43.1% and closed at 36.0% (−7.1pp), with Diego Lopes 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
Brian Ortega12016443.1%36.0%−7.1pp
Diego Lopes-150-20556.9%64.0%+7.1pp
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 2024-09-15 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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