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Gilbert Burns vs Mike Malott

Red corner GilbertBurns“Durinho”Kill Cliff FC · Born in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · Fights out of Boca Raton, Florida, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner MikeMalott“Proper”Team Alpha Male · Born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada · Fights out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Welterweight5 rounds18 Apr 2026At the time: Gilbert Burns was #11 at Welterweight · rankings of 16 April 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
22-10
Record
14-2-1
39
Age
−5 yr34
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1724
UFC bouts
7
8/1553% of wins
Finishes
+13%4/667% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Born in
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Fights out of
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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
Mike Malott
78.0% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 46%
Vs the market−2.0pp
Market had our pick at80%
The fight
Mike Malott
WIN✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round3 of 5
Clock2:08
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Mike Malott at 78.0% and Mike Malott 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 →

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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Gilbert Burns11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 26BODY45%5 of 7LEGS27%3 of 5
Mike Malott13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 31BODY8%1 of 1LEGS15%2 of 2
11 of 38
Sig.
strikes
13 of 34
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Gilbert Burns23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 23BODY13%3 of 3LEGS39%9 of 11
Mike Malott22 sig landed
HEAD95%21 of 48BODY5%1 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
23 of 37
Sig.
strikes
22 of 53
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 32:08 of action⚡ 2 KD MalottEnded 2:08
Gilbert Burns6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 11BODY33%2 of 2LEGS33%2 of 4
Mike Malott21 sig landed
HEAD95%20 of 33BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 17
Sig.
strikes
21 of 34
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:14
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 11

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

Mike Malott

Round
3
Clock
2:08
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.

Gilbert Burns

2.04takedowns / 15 min
2.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
5.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.26 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Mike Malott

1.63takedowns / 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 (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Gilbert Burns↑ +4.3pp
open 25.7%close 30.0%
Mike Malott↓ −4.3pp
open 74.3%close 70.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gilbert Burns opened at 25.7% and closed at 30.0% (+4.3pp), with Mike Malott 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.

Our published call had Mike Malott at 78.0%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 70.0% — our number sat 8.0pp 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
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Gilbert Burns27522225.7%30.0%+4.3pp
Mike Malott-335-26474.3%70.0%−4.3pp
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% · dated 2026-04-19 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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