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Events · UFC Fight Night 272: Moicano vs Duncan · Dione Barbosa vs Melissa Gatto
Red corner DioneBarbosa“The Witch”Kings MMA · Recife, Pernambuco
VSSettled
Blue corner MelissaGattoMSP · Campinas, Sao Paulo
Women's Flyweight3 rounds4 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Gatto.
  • Every one of Gatto’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Barbosa.
10-4
Record
9-3-2
33
Age
−4 yr29
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
66″
Reach
+3″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+15
1/250% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Kings MMA
Gym
MSP
Recife, Pernambuco
From
Campinas, 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
Melissa Gatto
55.7% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 65%
Vs the market+9.4pp
Market had our pick at46%
The fight
Dione Barbosa
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Melissa Gatto at 55.7%Dione Barbosa 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 — 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
Dione Barbosa16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 31BODY12%2 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
Melissa Gatto21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 26BODY33%7 of 13LEGS33%7 of 9
16 of 37
Sig.
strikes
21 of 48
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:15
Control
1:11
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barbosa firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Dione Barbosa9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 17BODY33%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Melissa Gatto5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 4BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
5 of 7
2 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 6
2:20
Control
1:55
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barbosa firstMichael Bell9–9Sal D'Amato9–9Jerin Valel9–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Dione Barbosa5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 5BODY80%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Melissa Gatto7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 10BODY14%1 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:31
Control
1:42
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Barbosa firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9

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

Majority Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Dione BarbosaMelissa Gatto
Official totals — Dione Barbosa first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27
Jerin Valel29–27

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 — 11 scored, Dione Barbosa first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Chris Connor The Fight City29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–27
Combat Press.com28–28
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com28–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Barbosa · 54%30-26 Gatto · 8%29-27 Gatto · 8%30-27 Gatto · 3%

37 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.

Dione Barbosa

2.40takedowns / 15 min
2.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.77 / 15m
5.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.56 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
27%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Melissa Gatto

1.77takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

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.

Dione Barbosa↑ +6.4pp
open 44.7%close 51.2%
Melissa Gatto↓ −6.4pp
open 55.3%close 48.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dione Barbosa opened at 44.7% and closed at 51.2% (+6.4pp), with Melissa Gatto moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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 Melissa Gatto at 55.7%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 48.8% — our number sat 6.9pp above 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
Dione Barbosa115-11744.7%51.2%+6.4pp
Melissa Gatto-135-10655.3%48.8%−6.4pp
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% · 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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