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Events · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs Malott · Thiago Moises vs Gauge Young
Red corner ThiagoMoisesAmerican Top Team · Indaiatuba, Sao Paulo
VSSettled
Blue corner GaugeYoung“Gee Money”Ignite Jiu-Jitsu · Kansas City, Missouri
Lightweight3 rounds18 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Lands 3.8 more significant strikes a minute than Moises.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Young.
19-10
Record
11-4
31
Age
−6 yr25
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1315
UFC bouts
2
4/850% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Ignite Jiu-Jitsu
Indaiatuba, Sao Paulo
From
Kansas City, Missouri
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
Gauge Young
55.2% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 62%
Vs the market+1.7pp
Market had our pick at54%
The fight
Gauge Young
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Gauge Young at 55.2% and Gauge Young 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
Thiago Moises8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 9BODY12%1 of 1LEGS38%3 of 3
Gauge Young9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS78%7 of 7
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
9 of 23
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:22
Control
0:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Moises14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS36%5 of 10
Gauge Young44 sig landed
HEAD43%19 of 60BODY27%12 of 14LEGS30%13 of 14
14 of 38
Sig.
strikes
44 of 88
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD YoungEnded 5:00
Thiago Moises23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 45BODY0%0 of 1LEGS9%2 of 4
Gauge Young69 sig landed
HEAD59%41 of 81BODY22%15 of 20LEGS19%13 of 14
23 of 50
Sig.
strikes
69 of 115
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:42
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 62Clinch 1Ground 6
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Official totals — Thiago Moises first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 9 scored, Thiago Moises first · unofficial

Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Young · 86%29-28 Moises · 8%29-27 Young · 2%30-27 Young · 2%

49 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.

Thiago Moises

1.37takedowns / 15 min
1.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
4.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
30%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gauge Young

0.75takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Thiago Moises↓ −15.9pp
open 58.0%close 42.1%
Gauge Young↑ +15.9pp
open 42.0%close 57.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Moises opened at 58.0% and closed at 42.1% (−15.9pp), with Gauge Young 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 Gauge Young at 55.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 57.9% — our number sat 2.7pp below 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
Thiago Moises-15012658.0%42.1%−15.9pp
Gauge Young130-15542.0%57.9%+15.9pp
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% · dated 2026-04-19 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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