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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+10.0pp
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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
Montel JacksonRaoni Barcelos
Official card — Montel Jackson first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell10–99–109–1028–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–99–1010–929–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide10–99–109–1028–29

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.

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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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