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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Jonathan Micallef vs Themba Gorimbo
Red corner JonathanMicallef“The Captain”Combat 1 MMA · Melbourne, Victoria
VSSettled
Blue corner ThembaGorimbo“The Answer”MMA Masters · Masvingo
Welterweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Gorimbo.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Micallef.
10-1
Record
14-7
−8 yr27
Age
35
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
77″
Reach
77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+57
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Combat 1 MMA
Gym
MMA Masters
Melbourne, Victoria
From
Masvingo
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
Jonathan Micallef
62.8% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 57%
Vs the market−11.6pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Jonathan Micallef
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jonathan Micallef at 62.8% and Jonathan Micallef 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 action
Jonathan Micallef6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 16BODY50%3 of 3LEGS17%1 of 1
Themba Gorimbo11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 17BODY9%1 of 1LEGS45%5 of 5
6 of 20
Sig.
strikes
11 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:11
Control
0:49
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Micallef firstMark Christie10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Darryl Ransom9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jonathan Micallef4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 4BODY75%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Themba Gorimbo5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:57
Control
3:41
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Micallef firstMark Christie9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Darryl Ransom9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jonathan Micallef45 sig landed
HEAD80%36 of 74BODY16%7 of 9LEGS4%2 of 2
Themba Gorimbo23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 38BODY9%2 of 5LEGS39%9 of 9
45 of 85
Sig.
strikes
23 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:18
Control
0:55
Distance 42Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Micallef firstMark Christie10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Darryl Ransom10–9

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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Jonathan MicallefThemba Gorimbo
Official totals — Jonathan Micallef first
JudgeTotal
Mark Christie29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% 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 — 4 scored, Jonathan Micallef first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Micallef · 76%29-28 Gorimbo · 19%30-27 Micallef · 3%30-26 Micallef · 2%

62 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.

Jonathan Micallef

1.08takedowns / 15 min
1.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.52 / 15m
2.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.29 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
62%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Themba Gorimbo

4.52takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Jonathan Micallef↑ +8.7pp
open 58.0%close 66.7%
Themba Gorimbo↓ −8.7pp
open 42.0%close 33.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jonathan Micallef opened at 58.0% and closed at 66.7% (+8.7pp), with Themba Gorimbo 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 Jonathan Micallef at 62.8%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 66.7% — our number sat 3.9pp below 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
Jonathan Micallef-150-23458.0%66.7%+8.7pp
Themba Gorimbo13018642.0%33.3%−8.7pp
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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