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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Jacob Malkoun vs Gerald Meerschaert
Red corner JacobMalkoun“Mamba”PMA Super Martial Arts · Sydney, New South Wales
VSSettled
Blue corner GeraldMeerschaert“GM3”Kill Cliff FC · Racine, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Meerschaert.
  • Every one of Meerschaert’s 12 UFC wins came inside the distance.
10-3
Record
37-22
−8 yr30
Age
38
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
+1725
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+80%12/12100% of wins
PMA Super Martial Arts
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Racine, Wisconsin
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
Jacob Malkoun
81.7% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 34%
Vs the market−6.7pp
Market had our pick at88%
The fight
Jacob Malkoun
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jacob Malkoun at 81.7% and Jacob Malkoun won. The method call missed.
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 action1 sub attempt
Jacob Malkoun6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 11BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Gerald Meerschaert4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 4BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
4 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
3:56
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action
Jacob Malkoun18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 40BODY11%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Gerald Meerschaert16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 26BODY19%3 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
18 of 42
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:23
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Jacob Malkoun12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 23BODY25%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Gerald Meerschaert12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 36BODY17%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 39
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:41
Control
0:27
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mike Beltran
Jacob MalkounGerald Meerschaert
Official card — Jacob Malkoun first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Mark Christie9–1010–910–929–28
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide9–1010–910–929–28
Mick Meany9–1010–910–929–28

Media cards — 5 scored, Jacob Malkoun first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Meerschaert · 63%29-28 Malkoun · 32%30-28 Malkoun · 1%30-27 Meerschaert · 1%

75 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.

Still to come on this page

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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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