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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi · Caio Machado vs Brendson Ribeiro
From the tape · 2 Nov 2024

Caio Machado vs Brendson Ribeiro

UFC Fight Night: Moreno vs. Albazi · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Result

Brendson Ribeiro beat Caio Machado

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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 CaioMachado“Bigfoot”RD Champions · Olinda, Pernambuco
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BrendsonRibeiro“The Gorilla”Brazilian TKO · Vila Mau, Para
Light Heavyweight3 rounds2 Nov 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 61 points more takedown defence than Ribeiro.
8-4-1
Record
17-11
30
Age
−2 yr28
+1″6' 4"
Height
6' 3"
78″
Reach
+3″81″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
RD Champions
Gym
Brazilian TKO
Olinda, Pernambuco
From
Vila Mau, Para
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
Caio Machado22 sig landed
HEAD14%3 of 21BODY32%7 of 10LEGS55%12 of 12
Brendson Ribeiro16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 21BODY31%5 of 6LEGS31%5 of 7
22 of 43
Sig.
strikes
16 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machado firstMichael Bell9–10Thomas Collins9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Caio Machado22 sig landed
HEAD27%6 of 31BODY50%11 of 18LEGS23%5 of 9
Brendson Ribeiro12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 22BODY33%4 of 9LEGS25%3 of 5
22 of 58
Sig.
strikes
12 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machado firstMichael Bell9–10Thomas Collins10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Caio Machado32 sig landed
HEAD47%15 of 62BODY47%15 of 19LEGS6%2 of 2
Brendson Ribeiro21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 50BODY33%7 of 10LEGS0%0 of 1
32 of 83
Sig.
strikes
21 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machado firstMichael Bell10–9Thomas Collins10–9Sal 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

Split Decision

Referee · Jerin Valel
Caio MachadoBrendson Ribeiro
Official totals — Caio Machado first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Thomas Collins29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

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 — 11 scored, Caio Machado first · unofficial

Combat Press.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Machado · 44%29-28 Ribeiro · 25%30-27 Machado · 14%30-27 Ribeiro · 12%30-29 Ribeiro · 2%

59 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.

Caio Machado

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.02 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
42%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Brendson Ribeiro

0.85takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Caio Machado↑ +0.7pp
open 59.9%close 60.6%
Brendson Ribeiro↓ −0.7pp
open 40.1%close 39.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Caio Machado opened at 59.9% and closed at 60.6% (+0.7pp), with Brendson Ribeiro 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
Caio Machado-165-17559.9%60.6%+0.7pp
Brendson Ribeiro14014240.1%39.4%−0.7pp
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 2024-11-03 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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