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Events · UFC Fight Night: Turcios vs Montes · Max Holloway vs Charles Oliveira
Red corner MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSSettled
Blue corner CharlesOliveira“Do Bronxs”Guaruja, Sao Paulo
Lightweight Bout3 rounds7 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 13 of 23 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 21 of 24 UFC wins.
  • Lands 3.7 more significant strikes a minute than Oliveira.
  • 36 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Holloway.
28-9
Record
37-11
−2 yr34
Age
36
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
69″
Reach
+5″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
31
UFC bouts
+536
13/2357% of wins
Finishes
+31%21/2488% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Guaruja, Sao Paulo
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
Max Holloway
63.2% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 55%
Vs the market+0.3pp
Market had our pick at63%
The fight
Charles Oliveira
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round5 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Max Holloway at 63.2%Charles Oliveira won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Max Holloway8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 10BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
Charles Oliveira10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS30%3 of 3
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
10 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:30
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 3
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Max Holloway5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 4BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Charles Oliveira13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 13BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 7
Sig.
strikes
13 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:40
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Charles Oliveira9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 10BODY11%1 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
9 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
4:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 5
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Charles Oliveira9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 8BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
9 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
4:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
Charles Oliveira9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 9BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
9 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:36
Control
2:54
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 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 · Marc Goddard
Max HollowayCharles Oliveira
Official card — Max Holloway first
JudgeR1R2R3R4R5Total
Michael Bell9–109–109–109–109–1045–50
Derek Cleary2.1 avg spread · 43% wide9–109–109–109–109–1045–50
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide9–109–109–109–109–1045–50

Media cards — 19 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com41–50
Drake Riggs Uncrowned42–50
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com43–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com43–50
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com43–50
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com43–50
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com43–50
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com43–50
John Pollock POST Wrestling44–50
Sheehan SevereMMA.com44–50
Nick Baldwin theScore44–50
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection44–50
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com44–50
Jake Noecker Home of Fight44–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com44–50
Steve Duncan mma.uno45–50
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com45–50
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com45–50
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News45–50

Fan vote · unofficial

50-44 Oliveira · 27%50-43 Oliveira · 24%50-45 Oliveira · 24%50-42 Oliveira · 10%50-41 Oliveira · 9%

270 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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