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Events · UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes · Colby Thicknesse vs Josias Musasa
From the tape · 27 Sep 2025

Colby Thicknesse vs Josias Musasa

UFC Fight Night: Ulberg vs. Reyes · Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Result

Colby Thicknesse beat Josias Musasa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 ColbyThicknesse“Slickness”Freestyle Fighting Gym · Windang, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JosiasMusasa“The KO Wizard”Elite Training Center - Lubumbashi · Lubumbashi
Bantamweight3 rounds27 Sep 2025
The story going in
  • Carries 18 points more striking defence than Musasa.
  • Carries 48 points more takedown defence than Thicknesse.
9-1
Record
8-2
26
Age
26
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
69″
Reach
+5″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
1
Freestyle Fighting Gym
Gym
Elite Training Center - Lubumbashi
Windang, New South Wales
From
Lubumbashi
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 action1 sub attempt
Colby Thicknesse43 sig landed
HEAD88%38 of 70BODY5%2 of 2LEGS7%3 of 3
Josias Musasa12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%3 of 6
43 of 75
Sig.
strikes
12 of 27
1 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:43
Control
0:11
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 37
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato10–9Mick Meany10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Colby Thicknesse8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 9BODY50%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Josias Musasa18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 23BODY17%3 of 4LEGS33%6 of 8
8 of 14
Sig.
strikes
18 of 35
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:37
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato9–10Mick Meany9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Colby Thicknesse11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 16BODY18%2 of 3LEGS27%3 of 3
Josias Musasa13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 18BODY31%4 of 5LEGS8%1 of 4
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:06
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato10–9Mick Meany10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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
Colby ThicknesseJosias Musasa
Official totals — Colby Thicknesse first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Mick Meany29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 12 scored, Colby Thicknesse first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM A Latinoamerica29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Musasa · 51%29-28 Thicknesse · 35%29-27 Thicknesse · 8%30-27 Thicknesse · 3%

37 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.

Colby Thicknesse

0.67takedowns / 15 min
0.67 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.90 / 15m
9.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.80 / 15m
7%
ACCURACY
50%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Josias Musasa

0.90takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Colby Thicknesse↓ −5.0pp
open 43.8%close 38.8%
Josias Musasa↑ +5.0pp
open 56.2%close 61.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colby Thicknesse opened at 43.8% and closed at 38.8% (−5.0pp), with Josias Musasa 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
Colby Thicknesse12014843.8%38.8%−5.0pp
Josias Musasa-140-17556.2%61.2%+5.0pp
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 2025-09-28 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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