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Events · Medic vs Rodriguez · Gilbert Urbina vs Vlasto Cepo
Red corner GilbertUrbina“The RGV Bad Boy”BMF Ranch · Weslaco, Texas
VSSettled
Blue corner VlastoCepo
Middleweight3 rounds1 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 56 points more accurate striking than Cepo.
8-5
Record
14-4
−1 yr30
Age
31
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
Vlasto Cepo
66.9% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 47%
Vs the market−8.3pp
Market had our pick at75%
The fight
Gilbert Urbina
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:01
Missed We called Vlasto Cepo at 66.9%Gilbert Urbina 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:01 of action⚡ 1 KD UrbinaEnded 1:01
Gilbert Urbina30 sig landed
HEAD90%27 of 45BODY7%2 of 2LEGS3%1 of 1
Vlasto Cepo7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 22BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 48
Sig.
strikes
7 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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

Gilbert Urbina

Round
1
Clock
1:01
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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Gilbert Urbina

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

2.86takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.86 landed per 15 minutes — +0.72 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS77
2.86 / 15m+0.72 vs field
ATTEMPTS71
6.50 / 15m+1.24 vs field
ACCURACY58
44%−0pp vs field
SUB ATT48
0.70 / 15m−0.60 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Gilbert UrbinaVlasto CepoPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Gilbert Urbina vs Vlasto Cepo — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Gilbert Urbina and Vlasto Cepo from Jul 25 to Aug 01, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Gilbert Urbina moves from 62% to 28% and Vlasto Cepo from 38% to 72%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.20%30%40%50%60%70%80%Jul 25Jul 27Jul 28Jul 30Aug 1▲ our call: Vlasto Cepo (MED)28%72%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Vlasto Cepo's implied chance moved up from 38% to 72% (+35.0pp). 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 Aug 01 17:24Z — 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 Vlasto Cepo at 66.9%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 72.5% — our number sat 5.6pp 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
Gilbert Urbina — sportsbook consensus37.0%24.7%38.0%26.5%−10.6pp
Vlasto Cepo — sportsbook consensus63.0%62.0%75.3%73.5%+10.6pp
Gilbert Urbina — Polymarket62.5%24.5%65.0%27.5%−35.0pp
Vlasto Cepo — Polymarket37.5%35.0%75.5%72.5%+35.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 805 snapshots on file · window Jul 25 03:12Aug 01 17:18Z · last capture Aug 01, 17:18Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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