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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Teixeira · Stephen Thompson vs Gabriel Bonfim
From the tape · 12 Jul 2025

Stephen Thompson vs Gabriel Bonfim

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Teixeira · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Gabriel Bonfim beat Stephen Thompson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Blake Grice

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.

ST
Red corner StephenThompson“Wonderboy”Simpsonville, South Carolina
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GabrielBonfim“Marretinha”Bonfim Brothers · Brasilia, Distrito Federal
Welterweight3 rounds12 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
17-9-1
Record
20-1
42
Age
−15 yr27
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1621
UFC bouts
5
6/1250% of wins
Finishes
+25%3/475% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Brasilia, Distrito Federal
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
Stephen Thompson6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 13BODY50%3 of 7LEGS33%2 of 4
Gabriel Bonfim14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS79%11 of 16
6 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:11
Control
1:26
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Stephen Thompson29 sig landed
HEAD62%18 of 35BODY24%7 of 8LEGS14%4 of 4
Gabriel Bonfim16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS56%9 of 10
29 of 47
Sig.
strikes
16 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:02
Control
1:18
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMichael Bell10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 13BODY57%4 of 5LEGS14%1 of 3
Gabriel Bonfim10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 9BODY50%5 of 5LEGS30%3 of 4
7 of 21
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:15
Control
2:45
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Rick Winter10–9

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 · Blake Grice
Stephen ThompsonGabriel Bonfim
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide28–29
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% 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 — 14 scored, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Thompson · 87%29-28 Bonfim · 9%30-27 Thompson · 2%30-27 Bonfim · 0%29-26 Thompson · 0%

531 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.

Stephen Thompson

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.60 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.55 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
55%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Gabriel Bonfim

3.60takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Stephen Thompson→ no move
open 23.4%close 23.0%
Gabriel Bonfim→ no move
open 76.6%close 77.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Stephen Thompson opened at 23.4% and closed at 23.0% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Stephen Thompson31031323.4%23.0%−0.3pp
Gabriel Bonfim-400-42476.6%77.0%+0.3pp
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 2025-07-13 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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