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Events · UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs Zalal · Montel Jackson vs Raoni Barcelos
Red corner MontelJackson“Quik”Red Schafer MMA · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSSettled
Blue corner RaoniBarcelosLaerte Barcelos Team · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Bantamweight3 rounds25 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
15-4
Record
22-5
−4 yr34
Age
38
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+8″75″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+214
+4%4/944% of wins
Finishes
4/1040% of wins
Red Schafer MMA
Gym
Laerte Barcelos Team
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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
Montel Jackson
69.9% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 62%
Vs the market+9.9pp
Market had our pick at60%
The fight
Raoni Barcelos
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Montel Jackson at 69.9%Raoni Barcelos 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⚡ 1 KD Jackson1 sub attempt
Montel Jackson14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 20BODY29%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Raoni Barcelos3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY67%2 of 3LEGS33%1 of 1
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:23
Control
2:49
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Jackson firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Montel Jackson13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 15BODY23%3 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Raoni Barcelos8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 7BODY38%3 of 5LEGS38%3 of 5
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:00
Control
2:14
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Montel Jackson8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 22BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Raoni Barcelos10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 11BODY30%3 of 3LEGS20%2 of 3
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 7
0:00
Control
2:42
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Montel JacksonRaoni Barcelos
Official totals — Montel Jackson first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29

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 — 10 scored, Montel Jackson first · unofficial

Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
MM A Latinoamerica28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Barcelos · 58%29-28 Jackson · 36%30-27 Jackson · 3%30-27 Barcelos · 1%

139 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.

Montel Jackson

2.71takedowns / 15 min
2.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.51 / 15m
4.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.10 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
31%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Raoni Barcelos

2.51takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Montel Jackson↓ −2.4pp
open 66.3%close 64.0%
Raoni Barcelos↑ +2.4pp
open 33.7%close 36.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Montel Jackson opened at 66.3% and closed at 64.0% (−2.4pp), with Raoni Barcelos 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 Montel Jackson at 69.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 64.0% — our number sat 5.9pp 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
Montel Jackson-221-20566.3%64.0%−2.4pp
Raoni Barcelos18616433.7%36.0%+2.4pp
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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