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Events · UFC Fight Night: Andrade vs Reyes · Marlon Vera vs David Martinez
Red corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
VSSettled
Blue corner DavidMartinez“Black Spartan”Bonebreakers MMA · Mexico City
Bantamweight Bout3 rounds28 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 11 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Vera.
23-12-1
Record
14-1
33
Age
−6 yr27
+3″5' 8"
Height
5' 5"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+2325
UFC bouts
2
11/1573% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Team Oyama
Gym
Bonebreakers MMA
Chone, Manabi
From
Mexico City
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
David Martinez
69.4% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 59%
Vs the market−0.4pp
Market had our pick at70%
The fight
David Martinez
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called David Martinez at 69.4% and David Martinez won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Marlon Vera5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 30BODY40%2 of 4LEGS60%3 of 5
David Martinez19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 28BODY26%5 of 7LEGS21%4 of 6
5 of 39
Sig.
strikes
19 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 3
Round 25:00 of action
Marlon Vera13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 32BODY8%1 of 4LEGS15%2 of 4
David Martinez21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 33BODY29%6 of 8LEGS10%2 of 2
13 of 40
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marlon Vera24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 51BODY33%8 of 13LEGS0%0 of 2
David Martinez31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 65BODY16%5 of 5LEGS3%1 of 1
24 of 66
Sig.
strikes
31 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:04
Control
0:13
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Marlon VeraDavid Martinez
Official card — Marlon Vera first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell9–109–1010–928–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide9–109–1010–928–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide9–109–1010–928–29

Media cards — 15 scored, Marlon Vera first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Christian Stein Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Martinez · 66%29-28 Vera · 16%30-27 Martinez · 14%

50 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.

Still to come on this page

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The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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