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Events · Song vs Figueiredo · Carlston Harris vs Jake Matthews
Red corner CarlstonHarris“Mocambique”Renovacao Fight Team · Skeldon
VSSettled
Blue corner JakeMatthews“The Celtic Kid”Nexus · Epping, Victoria
Welterweight3 rounds30 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 8 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 23 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Harris.
19-8
Record
23-8
38
Age
−7 yr31
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+1623
+22%3/475% of wins
Finishes
8/1553% of wins
Renovacao Fight Team
Gym
Nexus
Skeldon
From
Epping, Victoria
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
Jake Matthews
74.3% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 37%
Vs the market+0.4pp
Market had our pick at74%
The fight
Jake Matthews
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jake Matthews at 74.3% and Jake Matthews 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 — 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
Carlston Harris25 sig landed
HEAD40%10 of 52BODY44%11 of 12LEGS16%4 of 5
Jake Matthews46 sig landed
HEAD80%37 of 74BODY20%9 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 69
Sig.
strikes
46 of 83
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Harris firstLuke Hill8–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Carlston Harris0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

Jake Matthews1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
0 of 0
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:27
Control
4:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Harris firstLuke Hill9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD MatthewsEnded 5:00
Carlston Harris2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Matthews8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
4:45
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Harris firstLuke Hill8–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Carlston HarrisJake Matthews
Official totals — Carlston Harris first
JudgeTotal
Luke Hill25–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 5 scored, Carlston Harris first · unofficial

CombatPress.com26–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com26–30
Sherdog.com26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Matthews · 38%30-27 Matthews · 21%30-24 Matthews · 21%30-25 Matthews · 17%28-27 Harris · 4%

24 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.

Carlston Harris

1.46takedowns / 15 min
1.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
6.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.51 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
41%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Jake Matthews

1.44takedowns / 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

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

Carlston HarrisJake MatthewsPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Carlston Harris vs Jake Matthews — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Carlston Harris and Jake Matthews from May 26 to May 30, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Carlston Harris moves from 72% to 18% and Jake Matthews from 28% to 82%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%May 26May 27May 28May 29May 30▲ we flagged Jake Matthews (HIGH) here18%82%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Jake Matthews's implied chance moved up from 28% to 82% (+54.0pp). 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.

This series stops at May 30 10:57Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Jake Matthews at 74.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 82.5% — our number sat 8.2pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Carlston Harris — sportsbook consensus26.3%20.7%26.3%20.8%−5.5pp
Jake Matthews — sportsbook consensus73.7%73.7%79.3%79.2%+5.5pp
Carlston Harris — Polymarket71.5%17.5%71.5%17.5%−54.0pp
Jake Matthews — Polymarket28.5%28.5%82.5%82.5%+54.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,016 snapshots on file · window May 26 19:54May 30 10:54Z · last capture May 30, 10:54Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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