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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Colby Thicknesse vs Vince Morales
Red corner ColbyThicknesse“Slickness”Freestyle Fighting Gym · Windang, New South Wales
VSSettled
Blue corner VinceMorales“Vandetta”Syndicate MMA · Caldwell, Idaho
Bantamweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 5 straight in the UFC.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Thicknesse.
9-1
Record
16-11
−9 yr26
Age
35
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+911
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Freestyle Fighting Gym
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Windang, New South Wales
From
Caldwell, Idaho
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
Colby Thicknesse
67.9% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 71%
Vs the market+13.5pp
Market had our pick at54%
The fight
Colby Thicknesse
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Colby Thicknesse at 67.9% and Colby Thicknesse 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 — 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 action4 sub attempts
Colby Thicknesse6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 8BODY33%2 of 3LEGS33%2 of 3
Vince Morales5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:20
Control
1:44
4
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato10–9Nathan Pintabona10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Colby Thicknesse27 sig landed
HEAD30%8 of 30BODY56%15 of 19LEGS15%4 of 5
Vince Morales18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 47BODY17%3 of 7LEGS6%1 of 1
27 of 54
Sig.
strikes
18 of 55
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:41
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato10–9Nathan Pintabona10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Colby Thicknesse13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 35BODY31%4 of 10LEGS31%4 of 4
Vince Morales25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 43BODY20%5 of 7LEGS4%1 of 1
13 of 49
Sig.
strikes
25 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:50
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Thicknesse firstSal D'Amato9–10Nathan Pintabona9–10Darryl Ransom9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Daniel Movahedi
Colby ThicknesseVince Morales
Official totals — Colby Thicknesse first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Nathan Pintabona29–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide29–28

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 — 5 scored, Colby Thicknesse first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM A Latinoamerica29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morales · 64%29-28 Thicknesse · 32%29-27 Morales · 1%29-27 Thicknesse · 1%

88 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.

Colby Thicknesse

0.67takedowns / 15 min
0.67 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
9.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.51 / 15m
7%
ACCURACY
47%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Vince Morales

0.71takedowns / 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.

Colby Thicknesse↑ +1.8pp
open 50.0%close 51.8%
Vince Morales↓ −1.8pp
open 50.0%close 48.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colby Thicknesse opened at 50.0% and closed at 51.8% (+1.8pp), with Vince Morales 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 Colby Thicknesse at 67.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 51.8% — our number sat 16.1pp 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
Colby Thicknesse-110-11950.0%51.8%+1.8pp
Vince Morales-110-10250.0%48.2%−1.8pp
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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