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Events · Makhachev vs Machado Garry · Edson Barboza vs Esteban Ribovics
Red corner EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
VSSettled
Blue corner EstebanRibovics“El Gringo”Kill Cliff FC · Tartagal, Salta
Lightweight3 rounds15 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 3.1 more significant strikes a minute than Barboza.
  • Has finished 9 of 18 UFC wins.
24-15
Record
16-3
40
Age
−10 yr30
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+6″75″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2532
UFC bouts
7
+25%9/1850% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Tartagal, Salta
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
Esteban Ribovics
73.5% confidentLOCK
Method calledDEC 63%
Vs the market−11.7pp
Market had our pick at85%
The fight
Esteban Ribovics
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock1:32
Called it We called Esteban Ribovics at 73.5% and Esteban Ribovics 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Edson Barboza24 sig landed
HEAD33%8 of 29BODY42%10 of 14LEGS25%6 of 6
Esteban Ribovics41 sig landed
HEAD63%26 of 72BODY10%4 of 5LEGS27%11 of 12
24 of 49
Sig.
strikes
41 of 89
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:13
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 21:32 of actionEnded 1:32
Edson Barboza6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY17%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Esteban Ribovics22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 29BODY27%6 of 6LEGS5%1 of 2
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
22 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:06
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 10Ground 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

Esteban Ribovics

Round
2
Clock
1:32
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: Herb Dean.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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