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Events · UFC Freedom 250 · Mauricio Ruffy vs Michael Chandler
Red corner MauricioRuffyThe Fighting Nerds · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
VSSettled
Blue corner MichaelChandler“Iron”Kill Cliff FC · High Ridge, Missouri
Lightweight3 rounds15 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 24 points more takedown defence than Chandler.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ruffy.
14-2
Record
23-11
−11 yr29
Age
40
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+27
3/475% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
The Fighting Nerds
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
From
High Ridge, Missouri
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
Mauricio Ruffy
77.3% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 55%
Vs the market−4.4pp
Market had our pick at82%
The fight
Mauricio Ruffy
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:29
Called it We called Mauricio Ruffy at 77.3% and Mauricio Ruffy 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:29 of action⚡ 2 KD RuffyEnded 4:29
Mauricio Ruffy19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 36BODY5%1 of 2LEGS11%2 of 2
Michael Chandler3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 7BODY0%0 of 3LEGS33%1 of 2
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
3 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:13
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Mauricio Ruffy

Round
1
Clock
4:29
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mike Beltran.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mauricio Ruffy

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.96 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.78 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
41%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Michael Chandler

1.96takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mauricio RuffyMichael ChandlerPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Mauricio Ruffy vs Michael Chandler — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Mauricio Ruffy and Michael Chandler from Jun 01 to Jun 15, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Mauricio Ruffy moves from 82% to 81% and Michael Chandler from 18% to 19%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Jun 1Jun 5Jun 8Jun 11Jun 15▲ we flagged Mauricio Ruffy (HIGH) here81%19%

The price on Mauricio Ruffy barely moved across this window — 82% at the open, 81% at the last price we captured (a 0.5pp shift).

Our published call had Mauricio Ruffy at 77.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 81.0% — our number sat 3.7pp 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 captureMove
Mauricio Ruffy — sportsbook consensus81.9%80.2%84.2%80.2%−1.7pp
Michael Chandler — sportsbook consensus18.1%15.8%19.8%19.8%+1.7pp
Mauricio Ruffy — Polymarket81.5%80.5%85.5%81.0%−0.5pp
Michael Chandler — Polymarket18.5%14.5%19.5%19.0%+0.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,160 snapshots on file · window Jun 01 17:20Jun 15 01:15Z · last capture Jun 15, 01:15Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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