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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−10.9pp
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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 · Herb Dean
Caio BorralhoReinier de Ridder
Official card — Caio Borralho first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide10–910–910–930–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–910–910–930–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide10–910–910–930–27

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.

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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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