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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Bueno Silva · Austin Lingo vs Melquizael Costa
From the tape · 15 Jul 2023

Austin Lingo vs Melquizael Costa

UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Bueno Silva · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Melquizael Costa beat Austin Lingo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

AL
Red corner AustinLingo“Lights Out”Fortis MMA · Born in Mesquite, Texas, United States · Fights out of Dallas, Texas, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MelquizaelCosta“Melk Cauthy”Chute Boxe Joao Emilio · Born in Porto de Moz, Pará, Brazil · Fights out of Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
Featherweight3 rounds15 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Carries 25 points more takedown defence than Costa.
  • Is 10 points more accurate striking than Lingo.
9-3
Record
26-8
29
Age
−3 yr26
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+34
UFC bouts
1
Fortis MMA
Gym
Chute Boxe Joao Emilio
Mesquite, Texas, United States
Born in
Porto de Moz, Pará, Brazil
Dallas, Texas, United States
Fights out of
Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil
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 action
Austin Lingo14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 44BODY29%4 of 9LEGS7%1 of 3
Melquizael Costa43 sig landed
HEAD42%18 of 53BODY47%20 of 35LEGS12%5 of 6
14 of 56
Sig.
strikes
43 of 94
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lingo firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Austin Lingo17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 46BODY29%5 of 6LEGS18%3 of 4
Melquizael Costa37 sig landed
HEAD35%13 of 52BODY49%18 of 25LEGS16%6 of 6
17 of 56
Sig.
strikes
37 of 83
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lingo firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Austin Lingo8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 24BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Melquizael Costa20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 28BODY50%10 of 13LEGS10%2 of 2
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
20 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 7
0:00
Control
2:44
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Lingo firstSal D'Amato8–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Brian Puccillo9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Austin LingoMelquizael Costa
Official totals — Austin Lingo first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide26–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% 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 — 10 scored, Austin Lingo first · unofficial

MM AMania.com26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
Dan Urban Couchside Judges26–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Combat Press.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Costa · 38%30-26 Costa · 24%30-27 Lingo · 14%30-25 Costa · 10%29-26 Costa · 10%

21 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.

Austin Lingo

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.53 / 15m
0.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.37 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
35%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Melquizael Costa

1.53takedowns / 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 (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Austin Lingo↓ −12.5pp
open 45.7%close 33.2%
Melquizael Costa↑ +12.5pp
open 54.3%close 66.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Austin Lingo opened at 45.7% and closed at 33.2% (−12.5pp), with Melquizael Costa 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
Austin Lingo10518745.7%33.2%−12.5pp
Melquizael Costa-138-23454.3%66.8%+12.5pp
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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