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Ding Meng vs Jose Souza

Red corner DingMeng
VSSettled
Blue corner JoseSouzaAlliance Training Center · Hometown (per Sherdog): San Diego, California
Welterweight3 rounds30 May 2026
35-11
Record
9-1
31
Age
−7 yr24
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
73″
Reach
+6″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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
Jose Henrique
62.2% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 38%
Vs the market+15.1pp
Market had our pick at47%
The fight
Jose Henrique
WIN✗
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jose Henrique at 62.2% and Jose Henrique 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
Ding Meng24 sig landed
HEAD17%4 of 12BODY21%5 of 9LEGS62%15 of 19
Jose Souza20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 39BODY0%0 of 2LEGS10%2 of 2
24 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Ding Meng26 sig landed
HEAD15%4 of 23BODY8%2 of 4LEGS77%20 of 24
Jose Souza23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 44BODY13%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 51
Sig.
strikes
23 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ding Meng13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 39BODY8%1 of 8LEGS54%7 of 8
Jose Souza29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 52BODY14%4 of 5LEGS7%2 of 2
13 of 55
Sig.
strikes
29 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Vitor Ribeiro
Official totals — Ding Meng first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Luke Hill29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29
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There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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

Ding Meng

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.33takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.33 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.77 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS5
0.33 / 15m−1.77 vs field
ATTEMPTS8
1.00 / 15m−4.06 vs field
ACCURACY34
33%−13pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.33 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Ding Mengclose only
no opening line on recordclose 52.3%
Jose Souzaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 47.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Ding Meng 52.3%, Jose Souza 47.7%, vig removed.

Our published call had Jose Henrique at 62.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 47.7% — our number sat 14.5pp 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
Ding Meng-125-123—52.3%—
Jose Souza—-101—47.7%—
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 2026-10-11 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Jose Henrique, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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