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Events · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales · Julian Erosa vs Melquizael Costa
From the tape · 17 May 2025

Julian Erosa vs Melquizael Costa

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Melquizael Costa beat Julian Erosa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 JulianErosa“Juicy J”Xtreme Couture · Yakima, Washington
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MelquizaelCosta“Melk Cauthy”Chute Boxe Joao Emilio · Porto de Moz, Para
Featherweight3 rounds17 May 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
31-14
Record
26-8
35
Age
−7 yr28
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
+3″74″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1016
UFC bouts
6
+17%6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Chute Boxe Joao Emilio
Yakima, Washington
From
Porto de Moz, 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
Julian Erosa10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 19BODY10%1 of 3LEGS40%4 of 4
Melquizael Costa32 sig landed
HEAD44%14 of 52BODY22%7 of 10LEGS34%11 of 13
10 of 26
Sig.
strikes
32 of 75
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Erosa firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Julian Erosa23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 40BODY35%8 of 10LEGS17%4 of 4
Melquizael Costa33 sig landed
HEAD76%25 of 46BODY9%3 of 4LEGS15%5 of 5
23 of 54
Sig.
strikes
33 of 55
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:56
Control
0:08
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 15Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Erosa firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Julian Erosa36 sig landed
HEAD72%26 of 81BODY25%9 of 11LEGS3%1 of 1
Melquizael Costa37 sig landed
HEAD76%28 of 62BODY16%6 of 8LEGS8%3 of 4
36 of 93
Sig.
strikes
37 of 74
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:02
Control
0:14
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Erosa firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Julian ErosaMelquizael Costa
Official totals — Julian Erosa first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 12 scored, Julian Erosa first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Costa · 51%29-28 Erosa · 34%30-27 Costa · 11%30-28 Costa · 1%30-27 Erosa · 1%

70 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.

Julian Erosa

1.73takedowns / 15 min
1.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.53 / 15m
4.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.37 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
35%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Melquizael Costa

1.53takedowns / 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.

Julian Erosa↑ +5.2pp
open 35.5%close 40.7%
Melquizael Costa↓ −5.2pp
open 64.5%close 59.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Julian Erosa opened at 35.5% and closed at 40.7% (+5.2pp), with Melquizael Costa 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
Julian Erosa17013535.5%40.7%+5.2pp
Melquizael Costa-205-16364.5%59.3%−5.2pp
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% · 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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