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Events · UFC Fight Night: Turcios vs Montes · Caio Borralho vs Reinier de Ridder
Red corner CaioBorralho“The Natural”The Fighting Nerds · Sao Luis, Maranhao
VSSettled
Blue corner Reinier deRidder“RdR”Combat Brothers · Breda, North Brabant
Middleweight Bout3 rounds7 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than Ridder.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Borralho.
18-2
Record
22-4
−2 yr33
Age
35
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+38
UFC bouts
5
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+46%3/475% of wins
The Fighting Nerds
Gym
Combat Brothers
Sao Luis, Maranhao
From
Breda, North Brabant
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
Caio Borralho
57.5% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 55%
Vs the market−10.8pp
Market had our pick at68%
The fight
Caio Borralho
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Caio Borralho at 57.5% and Caio Borralho 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 — 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
Caio Borralho24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 26BODY12%3 of 8LEGS29%7 of 8
Reinier de Ridder19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 37BODY16%3 of 6LEGS37%7 of 8
24 of 42
Sig.
strikes
19 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:00
Control
1:26
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Borralho firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Caio Borralho14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 16BODY14%2 of 3LEGS43%6 of 6
Reinier de Ridder17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 37BODY24%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
14 of 25
Sig.
strikes
17 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:41
Control
1:20
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Borralho firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Caio Borralho19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 23BODY21%4 of 5LEGS16%3 of 3
Reinier de Ridder19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 43BODY16%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
19 of 47
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:11
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Borralho firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron 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 · Herb Dean
Caio BorralhoReinier de Ridder
Official totals — Caio Borralho first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27

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 — 13 scored, Caio Borralho first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Borralho · 49%29-28 de Ridder · 28%30-27 Borralho · 16%30-27 de Ridder · 3%

211 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.

Caio Borralho

1.25takedowns / 15 min
1.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.56 / 15m
2.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.83 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
29%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Reinier de Ridder

2.56takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Caio Borralho→ no move
open 66.3%close 66.2%
Reinier de Ridder→ no move
open 33.7%close 33.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Caio Borralho opened at 66.3% and closed at 66.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp 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.

Our published call had Caio Borralho at 57.5%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 66.2% — our number sat 8.7pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Caio Borralho-235-22766.3%66.2%−0.1pp
Reinier de Ridder18018233.7%33.8%+0.1pp
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 2026-03-08 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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