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Events · Du Plessis vs Usman · Austin Bashi vs Jose Delgado
Red corner AustinBashiWarrior Way Martial Arts · West Bloomfield Township, Michigan
VSSettled
Blue corner JoseDelgadoMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Featherweight3 rounds18 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Averages 6.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Delgado.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Lands 5.7 more significant strikes a minute than Bashi.
14-2
Record
12-2
−4 yr24
Age
28
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
2
UFC bouts
+24
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Warrior Way Martial Arts
Gym
MMA Lab
West Bloomfield Township, Michigan
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Austin Bashi
53.8% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 39%
Vs the market+3.8pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Jose Miguel Delgado
LOSS
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Austin Bashi at 53.8%Jose Miguel Delgado 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 action⚡ 1 KD Delgado
Austin Bashi10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 25BODY30%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Jose Delgado12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 23BODY33%4 of 4LEGS17%2 of 2
10 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:40
Control
1:24
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Bashi firstSarah Cotton9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Austin Bashi7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 22BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 3
Jose Delgado13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 22BODY23%3 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
7 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:10
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bashi firstSarah Cotton9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Austin Bashi15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 27BODY20%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Jose Delgado10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 25BODY20%2 of 2LEGS10%1 of 1
15 of 32
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:20
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bashi firstSarah Cotton9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kerry Hatley
Austin BashiJose Delgado
Official totals — Austin Bashi first
JudgeTotal
Sarah Cotton27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 10 scored, Austin Bashi first · unofficial

CombatPress.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
MMAMania.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Delgado · 44%29-28 Delgado · 27%29-28 Bashi · 25%30-27 Bashi · 2%30-28 Bashi · 2%

59 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.

Austin Bashi

7.81takedowns / 15 min
7.81 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.51 / 15m
19.05 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.77 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
40%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jose Delgado

1.51takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Austin Bashi↑ +16.3pp
open 39.3%close 55.6%
Jose Delgado↓ −16.3pp
open 60.7%close 44.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Austin Bashi opened at 39.3% and closed at 55.6% (+16.3pp), with Jose Delgado 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 Austin Bashi at 53.8%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 55.6% — our number sat 1.8pp 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
Austin Bashi145-14039.3%55.6%+16.3pp
Jose Delgado-17011560.7%44.4%−16.3pp
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 2026-08-30. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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