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King Green vs Esteban Ribovics

Red corner KingGreenPinnacle MMA · Born in San Bernardino, California, United States · Fights out of Fontana, California, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner EstebanRibovics“El Gringo”Kill Cliff FC · Born in Tartagal, Salta, Argentina · Fights out of Salta, Argentina
Lightweight3 rounds3 Oct 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 17 UFC wins.
36-18-1
Record
17-3
40
Age
−10 yr30
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+2″71″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2331
UFC bouts
8
+7%8/1747% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Pinnacle MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
San Bernardino, California, United States
Born in
Tartagal, Salta, Argentina
Fontana, California, United States
Fights out of
Salta, Argentina
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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
71.3% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 50%
Vs the market+7.1pp
Market had our pick at64%
The fight
Esteban Ribovics
WIN✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:08
Called it We called Esteban Ribovics at 71.3% 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 →

By the numbers

  • Age

    Ribovics is 9 years younger. With an age gap of 8 to 9 years, the younger fighter wins 65% of UFC fights (411 of 631 fights).

  • Win streaks

    Green comes in on a 4-fight UFC winning run. A fighter on a run of 4 or 5 against an opponent on a shorter one wins 58% of the time (367 of 636 fights).

History leans Green on 1 of these; our model picked Ribovics.

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

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 14:08 of action⚡ 3 KD RibovicsEnded 4:08
King Green27 sig landed
HEAD41%11 of 23BODY41%11 of 18LEGS19%5 of 8
Esteban Ribovics35 sig landed
HEAD71%25 of 56BODY11%4 of 6LEGS17%6 of 9
27 of 49
Sig.
strikes
35 of 71
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:31
0
Knock-
downs
3
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 7

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
1
Clock
4:08
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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

King Green

1.30takedowns / 15 min
1.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.31 / 15m
3.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.47 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
66%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Esteban Ribovics

0.31takedowns / 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 (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

King GreenEsteban RibovicsPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
King Green vs Esteban Ribovics — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for King Green and Esteban Ribovics from Sep 25 to Oct 03, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. King Green moves from 30% to 36% and Esteban Ribovics from 70% to 64%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.20%30%40%50%60%70%Sep 25Sep 27Sep 29Oct 1Oct 3▲ our call: Esteban Ribovics (MED)36%64%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Esteban Ribovics's implied chance moved down from 70% to 64% (−7.0pp).

Our published call had Esteban Ribovics at 71.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 63.5% — our number sat 7.8pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
King Green — sportsbook consensus28.9%28.9%35.5%35.5%+6.6pp
Esteban Ribovics — sportsbook consensus71.1%64.5%71.1%64.5%−6.6pp
King Green — Polymarket29.5%29.5%36.5%36.5%+7.0pp
Esteban Ribovics — Polymarket70.5%63.5%70.5%63.5%−7.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,184 snapshots on file · window Sep 25 17:11–Oct 03 23:51Z · last capture Oct 03, 23:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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