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Events · UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Costa · Daniel Barez vs Luis Gurule
Red corner DanielBarezEntram Gym · Burjassot, Valencia
VSSettled
Blue corner LuisGurule“Grim”Factory X · Sheridan, Colorado
Flyweight3 rounds16 May 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Gurule.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Barez.
17-8
Record
11-4
37
Age
−5 yr32
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
+2″66″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
Entram Gym
Gym
Factory X
Burjassot, Valencia
From
Sheridan, Colorado
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
Daniel Barez
58.4% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 57%
Vs the market−16.1pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Luis Gurule
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Daniel Barez at 58.4%Luis Gurule 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 — 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 action1 sub attempt
Daniel Barez20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 32BODY15%3 of 3LEGS30%6 of 6
Luis Gurule25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 50BODY8%2 of 2LEGS8%2 of 3
20 of 41
Sig.
strikes
25 of 55
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:48
Control
1:21
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barez firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Daniel Barez42 sig landed
HEAD64%27 of 52BODY21%9 of 9LEGS14%6 of 8
Luis Gurule51 sig landed
HEAD88%45 of 99BODY2%1 of 3LEGS10%5 of 5
42 of 69
Sig.
strikes
51 of 107
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:44
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 49Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barez firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Daniel Barez51 sig landed
HEAD80%41 of 124BODY16%8 of 10LEGS4%2 of 2
Luis Gurule73 sig landed
HEAD86%63 of 124BODY7%5 of 8LEGS7%5 of 5
51 of 136
Sig.
strikes
73 of 137
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 51Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 62Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barez firstEric Colón9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Jerin Valel
Daniel BarezLuis Gurule
Official totals — Daniel Barez first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 8 scored, Daniel Barez first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gurule · 80%29-28 Gurule · 10%30-26 Gurule · 10%

20 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.

Daniel Barez

1.71takedowns / 15 min
1.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
5.90 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.47 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
15%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Luis Gurule

0.67takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Daniel BarezLuis GurulePolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Daniel Barez vs Luis Gurule — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Daniel Barez and Luis Gurule from May 02 to May 16, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Daniel Barez moves from 42% to 50% and Luis Gurule from 58% to 50%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%May 2May 6May 9May 13May 16▲ our call: Daniel Barez (LOW)50%50%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Daniel Barez's implied chance moved up from 42% to 50% (+9.0pp). Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Daniel Barez at 58.4%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 50.5% — our number sat 7.9pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Daniel Barez — sportsbook consensus51.1%4.9%58.4%4.9%−46.1pp
Luis Gurule — sportsbook consensus48.9%41.6%95.1%95.1%+46.1pp
Daniel Barez — Polymarket41.5%37.5%50.5%50.5%+9.0pp
Luis Gurule — Polymarket58.5%49.5%62.5%49.5%−9.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,604 snapshots on file · window May 02 18:46May 16 23:57Z · last capture May 16, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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