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Brandon Moreno vs Joseph Morales

Red corner BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
VSSettled
Blue corner JosephMoralesTeam Alpha Male · Clovis, California
Flyweight3 rounds12 Sep 2026At the time: Brandon Moreno was #8 at Flyweight · rankings of 8 September 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Morales’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
32
Age
32
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1520
UFC bouts
5
6/1155% of wins
Finishes
+45%3/3100% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Clovis, California
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
Joseph Morales
52.2% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 59%
Vs the market+0.4pp
Market had our pick at52%
The fight
Brandon Moreno
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Joseph Morales at 52.2%Brandon Moreno 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
Brandon Moreno27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 58BODY37%10 of 13LEGS4%1 of 1
Joseph Morales29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 66BODY10%3 of 6LEGS10%3 of 4
27 of 72
Sig.
strikes
29 of 76
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:13
Control
0:21
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Andrew Topps9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Moreno25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 57BODY32%8 of 9LEGS16%4 of 4
Joseph Morales26 sig landed
HEAD85%22 of 65BODY12%3 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
25 of 70
Sig.
strikes
26 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moreno firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Andrew Topps9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brandon Moreno15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 29BODY27%4 of 4LEGS33%5 of 5
Joseph Morales16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 32BODY19%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 38
Sig.
strikes
16 of 36
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:21
Control
0:14
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Moreno firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Andrew Topps10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Brandon MorenoJoseph Morales
Official totals — Brandon Moreno first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Andrew Topps28–29

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 — 9 scored, Brandon Moreno first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Unattributed29–28
CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
MMAMania.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morales · 36%29-28 Moreno · 36%30-27 Moreno · 26%30-27 Morales · 1%30-28 Moreno · 1%

78 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.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.14 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.71 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
42%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
3.00 / 15m

Joseph Morales

1.14takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Brandon Moreno↓ −11.1pp
open 61.1%close 50.0%
Joseph Morales↑ +11.1pp
open 38.9%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Moreno opened at 61.1% and closed at 50.0% (−11.1pp), with Joseph Morales 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 Joseph Morales at 52.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 50.0% — our number sat 2.2pp above 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
Brandon Moreno-170-11061.1%50.0%−11.1pp
Joseph Morales149-11038.9%50.0%+11.1pp
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 2026-09-20. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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