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Events · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs Malott · Julien Leblanc vs Robert Valentin
Red corner JulienLeblancPatenaude Martial Arts · Gatineau, Quebec
VSSettled
Blue corner RobertValentinFight Move Academy · Zurich
Middleweight3 rounds18 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 13 points more striking defence than Valentin.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 55 points more takedown defence than Leblanc.
10-3
Record
13-6
34
Age
−3 yr31
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
74″
Reach
+3″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Patenaude Martial Arts
Gym
Fight Move Academy
Gatineau, Quebec
From
Zurich
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
Julien Leblanc
59.8% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 43%
Vs the market+7.1pp
Market had our pick at53%
The fight
Robert Valentin
LOSS
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock2:22
Missed We called Julien Leblanc at 59.8%Robert Valentin won. The method call missed as well.
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

1 round of tape

Round 12:22 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:22
Julien Leblanc4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
Robert Valentin7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 7BODY29%2 of 2LEGS57%4 of 4
4 of 6
Sig.
strikes
7 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:42
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Robert Valentin

Round
1
Clock
2:22
Method
SUB

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Chris Desautels.

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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