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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori · Livinha Souza vs Randa Markos
From the tape · 23 Oct 2021

Livinha Souza vs Randa Markos

UFC Fight Night: Costa vs. Vettori · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Randa Markos beat Livinha Souza

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

LS
Red corner LivinhaSouza“The Brazilian Gangsta”Hometown (per Sherdog): Araraquara, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RandaMarkos“Quiet Storm”Michigan Top Team · Born in Baghdad, Iraq · Fights out of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Women's Strawweight3 rounds23 Oct 2021
The story going in
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Markos.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Souza.
14-4
Record
11-12-1
−6 yr30
Age
36
5' 3"
Height
+1″5' 4"
63″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+1217
+17%1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Araraquara, Sao Paulohometown, per Sherdog
From
Windsor, Ontario, Canadafights out of
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.

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 action2 sub attempts
Livinha Souza3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 5BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Randa Markos21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 29BODY19%4 of 5LEGS10%2 of 2
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
21 of 36
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
2:10
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Souza firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Livinha Souza2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Randa Markos12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 14BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
12 of 16
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
3:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 9
Judges · this round · Souza firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Livinha Souza6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Randa Markos32 sig landed
HEAD94%30 of 42BODY3%1 of 1LEGS3%1 of 1
6 of 16
Sig.
strikes
32 of 44
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
3:37
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 6Ground 7
Judges · this round · Souza firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Livinha SouzaRanda Markos
Official totals — Livinha Souza first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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 — 8 scored, Livinha Souza first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Markos · 50%30-27 Markos · 36%29-27 Markos · 4%30-26 Markos · 4%29-28 Souza · 4%

22 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.

Livinha Souza

2.54takedowns / 15 min
2.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
5.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
28%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Randa Markos

1.12takedowns / 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 (4.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Livinha Souza vs Randa Markos.

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