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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
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
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

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

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

Full round-by-round cards are pending a source refresh. The decisions corpus we read currently ends at 2026-05-16, so this bout has the judges’ totals but not their individual rounds yet. Nothing here is estimated to fill the gap — when the scrape is re-run, the grid appears.

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.

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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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