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History · 2026 · Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado · Rafa Garcia vs Rongzhu
From the tape · 12 Sep 2026

Rafa Garcia vs Rongzhu

Noche UFC: Silva vs. Delgado · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Rongzhu beat Rafa Garcia

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Gustav Gibson

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner RafaGarcia“Gifted”Mexicali, Baja California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Rongzhu
Lightweight3 rounds12 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Garcia.
32
Age
−6 yr26
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+511
UFC bouts
6
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+5%1/333% of wins
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.

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
Rafa Garcia21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 47BODY5%1 of 1LEGS10%2 of 2
Rongzhu29 sig landed
HEAD66%19 of 55BODY7%2 of 4LEGS28%8 of 10
21 of 50
Sig.
strikes
29 of 69
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstEric Colón10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Andrew Topps10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafa Garcia23 sig landed
HEAD78%18 of 62BODY9%2 of 4LEGS13%3 of 3
Rongzhu39 sig landed
HEAD67%26 of 64BODY8%3 of 5LEGS26%10 of 10
23 of 69
Sig.
strikes
39 of 79
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstEric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Andrew Topps9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafa Garcia29 sig landed
HEAD97%28 of 69BODY3%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Rongzhu41 sig landed
HEAD80%33 of 91BODY10%4 of 4LEGS10%4 of 4
29 of 70
Sig.
strikes
41 of 99
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Garcia firstEric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Andrew Topps9–10

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 · Gustav Gibson
Rafa GarciaRongzhu
Official totals — Rafa Garcia first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29
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, Rafa Garcia first · unofficial

Unattributed27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Unattributed27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Zhu · 57%29-28 Zhu · 30%29-28 Garcia · 7%30-27 Garcia · 3%

30 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.

Rafa Garcia

3.22takedowns / 15 min
3.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.34 / 15m
7.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.16 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
62%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Rongzhu

1.34takedowns / 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 (5.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Rafa Garcia↓ −15.0pp
open 58.0%close 43.0%
Rongzhu↑ +15.0pp
open 42.0%close 57.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafa Garcia opened at 58.0% and closed at 43.0% (−15.0pp), with Rongzhu 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Rafa Garcia-15012258.0%43.0%−15.0pp
Rongzhu130-14842.0%57.0%+15.0pp
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% · dated 2026-09-13 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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