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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jones vs Sola · Mario Pinto vs Felipe Franco
Red corner MarioPintoUrban Warriors · Lisbon
VSSettled
Blue corner FelipeFrancoGalpao da Luta · Salvador, Bahia
Heavyweight Bout3 rounds21 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more striking defence than Franco.
12-0
Record
11-2
28
Age
−3 yr25
+4″6' 5"
Height
6' 1"
+3″79″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Urban Warriors
Gym
Galpao da Luta
Lisbon
From
Salvador, Bahia
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
Mario Pinto
68.8% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 43%
Vs the market−16.9pp
Market had our pick at86%
The fight
Mario Pinto
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Mario Pinto at 68.8% and Mario Pinto won. The method call missed.
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
Mario Pinto16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 23BODY12%2 of 3LEGS12%2 of 2
Felipe Franco9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 21BODY22%2 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Mario Pinto9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 17BODY22%2 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
Felipe Franco3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 17BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
3 of 19
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:20
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mario Pinto9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 8BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Felipe Franco9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 13BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 10
Sig.
strikes
9 of 16
1 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:27
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Mario PintoFelipe Franco
Official card — Mario Pinto first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
David Lethaby2.0 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 43% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 53% wide9–1010–910–929–28

Media cards — 10 scored, Mario Pinto first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Chris Connor The Fight City30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pinto · 66%29-28 Pinto · 23%29-28 Franco · 7%30-27 Franco · 2%

44 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

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

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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