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Ozzy Diaz vs Ryan Gandra

Red corner OzzyDiaz
VSSettled
Blue corner RyanGandraFlavio Baiano Team · Hometown (per Sherdog): Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Middleweight3 rounds19 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 5.4 more significant strikes a minute than Diaz.
10-5
Record
11-1
35
Age
−4 yr31
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
+5″79″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
0/10% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
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
Ryan Gandra
87.1% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 59%
Vs the market+5.6pp
Market had our pick at82%
The fight
Ryan Gandra
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock2:04
Called it We called Ryan Gandra at 87.1% and Ryan Gandra 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 12:04 of action⚡ 1 KD GandraEnded 2:04
Ozzy Diaz3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 2BODY33%1 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Ryan Gandra16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 29BODY6%1 of 3LEGS12%2 of 2
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
16 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 6

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

Ryan Gandra

Round
1
Clock
2:04
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: Jonathan Romero.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Ozzy Diaz

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ryan Gandra

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

Ranked in Middleweight

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 frozen.

Ozzy DiazRyan GandraPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Ozzy Diaz vs Ryan Gandra — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Ozzy Diaz and Ryan Gandra from Sep 09 to Sep 19, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Ozzy Diaz moves from 26% to 18% and Ryan Gandra from 74% to 82%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Sep 9Sep 11Sep 14Sep 17Sep 19▲ we flagged Ryan Gandra (LOCK) here18%82%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Ryan Gandra's implied chance moved up from 74% to 82% (+8.0pp).

This series stops at Sep 19 23:01Z — 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 Ryan Gandra at 87.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 81.5% — our number sat 5.6pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Ozzy Diaz — sportsbook consensus21.5%16.1%26.2%16.7%−4.8pp
Ryan Gandra — sportsbook consensus78.5%73.8%83.9%83.3%+4.8pp
Ozzy Diaz — Polymarket26.5%17.5%38.5%18.5%−8.0pp
Ryan Gandra — Polymarket73.5%61.5%82.5%81.5%+8.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,554 snapshots on file · window Sep 09 05:11–Sep 19 22:51Z · last capture Sep 19, 22:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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