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History · 2025 · UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira · Payton Talbott vs Felipe Lima
From the tape · 28 Jun 2025

Payton Talbott vs Felipe Lima

UFC 317: Topuria vs. Oliveira · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Payton Talbott beat Felipe Lima

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 PaytonTalbottReno Academy of Combat · Reno, Nevada
VSOn the tape
Blue corner FelipeLima“Jungle Boy”Allstars Training Center · Manaus, Amazonas
Bantamweight3 rounds28 Jun 2025
The story going in
  • Every one of Talbott’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 3.8 more significant strikes a minute than Lima.
  • Carries 18 points more striking defence than Talbott.
11-1
Record
14-2
−1 yr26
Age
27
+4″5' 10"
Height
5' 6"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Reno Academy of Combat
Gym
Allstars Training Center
Reno, Nevada
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
Payton Talbott14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 22BODY7%1 of 1LEGS14%2 of 3
Felipe Lima10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 18BODY10%1 of 1LEGS10%1 of 1
14 of 26
Sig.
strikes
10 of 20
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:43
Control
1:45
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Talbott firstBen Cartlidge9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Payton Talbott21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 42BODY5%1 of 2LEGS5%1 of 2
Felipe Lima9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 16BODY33%3 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
21 of 46
Sig.
strikes
9 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:52
Control
0:30
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Talbott firstBen Cartlidge10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Payton Talbott24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 39BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 3
Felipe Lima7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY29%2 of 2LEGS14%1 of 2
24 of 46
Sig.
strikes
7 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:14
Control
1:08
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Talbott firstBen Cartlidge10–9Chris 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 · Chris Tognoni
Payton TalbottFelipe Lima
Official totals — Payton Talbott first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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, Payton Talbott first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Talbott · 47%29-28 Talbott · 46%29-28 Lima · 4%30-26 Talbott · 1%30-28 Talbott · 1%

96 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.

Payton Talbott

0.78takedowns / 15 min
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.18 / 15m
1.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.07 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
27%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Felipe Lima

2.18takedowns / 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.

Payton Talbott↓ −1.1pp
open 41.8%close 40.8%
Felipe Lima↑ +1.1pp
open 58.2%close 59.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Payton Talbott opened at 41.8% and closed at 40.8% (−1.1pp), with Felipe Lima 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
Payton Talbott12513541.8%40.8%−1.1pp
Felipe Lima-162-16258.2%59.2%+1.1pp
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 2025-06-29 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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