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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Ricky Turcios vs Brady Hiestand
From the tape · 28 Aug 2021

Ricky Turcios vs Brady Hiestand

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ricky Turcios beat Brady Hiestand

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 RickyTurciosHometown (per Sherdog): Houston, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BradyHiestand“Bam Bam”Sikjitsu · Hometown (per Sherdog): Spokane, Washington
Bantamweight3 rounds28 Aug 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Hiestand.
  • Averages 3.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Turcios.
13-6
Record
10-2
28
Age
−6 yr22
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Houston, Texashometown, per Sherdog
From
Spokane, Washingtonhometown, per Sherdog
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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
Ricky Turcios35 sig landed
HEAD74%26 of 46BODY17%6 of 6LEGS9%3 of 3
Brady Hiestand24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 39BODY12%3 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
35 of 55
Sig.
strikes
24 of 43
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:15
Control
3:14
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Turcios firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ricky Turcios15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 32BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Brady Hiestand15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 28BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 33
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:45
Control
2:43
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Turcios firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD TurciosEnded 5:00
Ricky Turcios50 sig landed
HEAD84%42 of 72BODY16%8 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Brady Hiestand27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 57BODY11%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
50 of 83
Sig.
strikes
27 of 60
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 5
1:32
Control
1:43
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 36Clinch 14Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Turcios firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Ricky TurciosBrady Hiestand
Official totals — Ricky Turcios first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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 — 12 scored, Ricky Turcios first · unofficial

Drake Riggs SCMP MMA30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Turcios · 47%29-28 Hiestand · 32%30-27 Turcios · 16%30-27 Hiestand · 1%

103 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.

Ricky Turcios

0.85takedowns / 15 min
0.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.13 / 15m
5.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.16 / 15m
17%
ACCURACY
37%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Brady Hiestand

4.13takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Ricky Turcios↓ −3.6pp
open 60.2%close 56.6%
Brady Hiestand↑ +3.6pp
open 39.8%close 43.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricky Turcios opened at 60.2% and closed at 56.6% (−3.6pp), with Brady Hiestand 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
Ricky Turcios-170-14560.2%56.6%−3.6pp
Brady Hiestand14012039.8%43.4%+3.6pp
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 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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