Round 1⚡ 1 KD Allen
9 of 9
Sig.
strikes
strikes
10 of 14
2 of 2
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 2
1:44
Control
1:45
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 3
VSSettled
The story going in
- Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
- 14 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Costa.
- Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
21-4
Record
26-8
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+514
UFC bouts
9
4/1136% of wins
Finishes
+21%4/757% of wins
Felixstowe, Suffolk
From
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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
Melquizael Costa
54.9% confidentTOSS-UP
The fight
Arnold Allen
LOSS✓
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
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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
5 rounds of tape
Round 2
23 of 38
Sig.
strikes
strikes
26 of 78
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 3
32 of 52
Sig.
strikes
strikes
30 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
1:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 4
23 of 36
Sig.
strikes
strikes
23 of 63
1 of 1
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 5Ended 5:00
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
strikes
11 of 28
4 of 4
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
4:03
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 11Clinch 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 · Chris Tognoni
Arnold AllenMelquizael Costa
| Judge | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 50–45 |
| Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide | 10–9 | 9–10 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 49–46 |
| David Lethaby2.0 avg spread · 43% wide | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 10–9 | 50–45 |
Media cards — 9 scored, Arnold Allen first · unofficial
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com50–45
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection50–45
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com50–45
Combat Press.com50–45
Jake Noecker Home of Fight49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46
Allen Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Fan vote · unofficial
50-45 Allen · 69%49-46 Allen · 22%48-47 Allen · 4%49-45 Allen · 3%50-43 Allen · 1%
77 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.