Unanimous decision. Every judge scored the bout for Edson Barboza.
Scorecards as recorded by PropSports round data · source ↗ · fighter attribution derived from the recorded result, not assumed from score order · how this is built
Fight progression reconstructed from verified round-level observations.
Pace is significant strikes landed per minute of observed round time. A round with no recorded observation is left empty rather than drawn as zero.
| Round | Fighter | KD | Sig. str. | Total | TD | Sub | Ctrl | Head | Body | Leg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R1 |
| Edson Barboza |
| 0 |
| 21/41 |
| 21/41 |
| 0/0 |
| 0 |
| 0:00 |
| 12 |
| 6 |
| 3 |
| Gilbert Melendez | 0 | 10/49 | 10/49 | 0/2 | 0 | 0:00 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| R2 | Edson Barboza | 0 | 17/55 | 24/63 | 1/1 | 0 | 0:39 | 6 | 3 | 8 |
| Gilbert Melendez | 0 | 15/41 | 18/47 | 0/2 | 0 | 0:04 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| R3 | Edson Barboza | 0 | 18/40 | 18/40 | 0/0 | 0 | 0:00 | 5 | 1 | 12 |
| Gilbert Melendez | 0 | 14/39 | 14/39 | 0/1 | 0 | 0:00 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
