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Farid Basharat vs John Garza

Red corner FaridBasharat“Ferocious”American Top Team · Born in Paktia Province, Afghanistan · Fights out of London, England
VSSettled
Blue corner JohnGarzaAzTex MMA · Hometown (per Sherdog): Dallas, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds11 Jul 2026At the time: Farid Basharat was #15 at Bantamweight · rankings of 30 June 2026
The story going in
  • Unbeaten — 6-0 in the UFC.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Basharat.
  • Averages 3.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Garza.
16-0
Record
6-2
28
Age
−5 yr23
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team
Gym
AzTex MMA
London, Englandfights out of
From
Dallas, Texashometown, per Sherdog
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
Farid Basharat
65.3% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 51%
Vs the market+15.3pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Farid Basharat
WIN✓
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Farid Basharat at 65.3% and Farid Basharat won. The method call landed too.
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 — 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
Farid Basharat23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 26BODY9%2 of 3LEGS22%5 of 6
John Garza15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 37BODY47%7 of 8LEGS0%0 of 2
23 of 35
Sig.
strikes
15 of 47
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:36
Control
0:07
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Basharat firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Farid Basharat26 sig landed
HEAD81%21 of 30BODY8%2 of 3LEGS12%3 of 3
John Garza33 sig landed
HEAD64%21 of 61BODY36%12 of 14LEGS0%0 of 1
26 of 36
Sig.
strikes
33 of 76
2 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:05
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Basharat firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Farid Basharat37 sig landed
HEAD76%28 of 53BODY5%2 of 3LEGS19%7 of 7
John Garza34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 53BODY24%8 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 63
Sig.
strikes
34 of 64
1 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:20
Control
0:01
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Basharat firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Farid BasharatJohn Garza
Official totals — Farid Basharat first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide30–27

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, Farid Basharat first · unofficial

CombatPress.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Unattributed29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Basharat · 40%30-27 Basharat · 29%29-28 Garza · 26%30-27 Garza · 3%30-26 Basharat · 2%

58 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.

Farid Basharat

3.57takedowns / 15 min
3.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
9.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
37%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Garza

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was published.

Farid BasharatJohn GarzaPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Farid Basharat vs John Garza — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Farid Basharat and John Garza from Jul 07 to Jul 11, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Farid Basharat moves from 55% to 86% and John Garza from 46% to 14%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was published before the window opened, not at that price.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Jul 7Jul 8Jul 9Jul 10Jul 11▲ our call: Farid Basharat (LOW)86%14%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Farid Basharat's implied chance moved up from 55% to 86% (+31.0pp). Our pick was published before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

This series stops at Jul 11 21:33Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Farid Basharat at 65.3%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 85.5% — our number sat 20.2pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Farid Basharat — sportsbook consensus78.3%78.3%83.8%83.5%+5.2pp
John Garza — sportsbook consensus21.7%16.2%21.7%16.5%−5.2pp
Farid Basharat — Polymarket54.5%54.5%85.5%85.5%+31.0pp
John Garza — Polymarket45.5%14.5%45.5%14.5%−31.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,090 snapshots on file · window Jul 07 18:09–Jul 11 21:27Z · last capture Jul 11, 21:27Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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