Moraes vs Assunção

Who won Moraes vs Assunção?

Marlon Moraes beat Raphael Assuncao by submission in the 1st round during the main event of UFC on ESPN+ 2, on Saturday 2nd February 2019 at Centro de Formacao Olimpica do Nordeste in Fortaleza.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Bantamweight division, which meant the weight limit was 135 pounds (9.6 stone or 61.2 KG).

Moraes vs Assunção stats

Marlon Moraes stepped into the octagon with a record of 21 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, 10 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 5 by submission.

Raphael Assuncao made his way to the cage with a record of 27 wins, 5 losses and 0 draws, 4 of those wins coming by knock out and 10 by submission.

Marlon Moraes' UFC record stood at 5-6-0, while Raphael Assuncao's came in at 12-7-0.

The stats suggested Moraes had a massive power advantage over Assuncao, boasting a 48% knock out percentage over Assuncao's 15%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Assuncao had an advantage over Moraes, with a 37% submission rate over Moraes' 24%.

Marlon Moraes was the younger man by 6 years, at 35 years old.

Moraes had a height advantage of 1 inch over Assuncao. Despite this, both fighters had equal reach.

Moraes was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 5 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2007, 3 years and 2 months later than Assuncao, whose first professional fight was in 2004. He had fought 16 less professional rounds, 72 to Assuncao's 88.

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Assuncao's last 2 fights had come over a period of 7 years, 9 months and 15 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 3 years, 10 months and 23 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 6 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3 rounds on average.

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