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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Martin Buday vs Marcus Buchecha
From the tape · 26 Jul 2025

Martin Buday vs Marcus Buchecha

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Martin Buday beat Marcus Buchecha

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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 MartinBuday“Badys”Spartakus Fight Gym · Trnava
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarcusBuchecha
Heavyweight3 rounds26 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Buday.
  • Carries 93 points more takedown defence than Buchecha.
16-2
Record
5-3-1
−2 yr33
Age
35
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
77″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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
Martin Buday19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 38BODY21%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 2
Marcus Buchecha19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 31BODY47%9 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 44
Sig.
strikes
19 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:43
Control
0:32
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buday firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Martin Buday9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 7BODY11%1 of 1LEGS44%4 of 4
Marcus Buchecha3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 12
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:50
Control
3:01
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Buday firstMichael Bell9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Martin Buday13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
Marcus Buchecha2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
2 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:18
Control
1:32
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Buday firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Sal 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jim Perdios
Martin BudayMarcus Buchecha
Official totals — Martin Buday first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 11 scored, Martin Buday first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Buchecha · 44%29-28 Buday · 43%30-27 Buchecha · 9%30-27 Buday · 4%

103 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.

Martin Buday

0.15takedowns / 15 min
0.15 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.02 / 15m
0.75 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
12.62 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
16%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Marcus Buchecha

2.02takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Martin Buday↑ +2.5pp
open 28.5%close 31.0%
Marcus Buchecha↓ −2.5pp
open 71.5%close 69.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Martin Buday opened at 28.5% and closed at 31.0% (+2.5pp), with Marcus Buchecha 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
Martin Buday23020728.5%31.0%+2.5pp
Marcus Buchecha-315-26371.5%69.0%−2.5pp
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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