Padilla improves to 5‑0

Chris Padilla did not leave UFC 327 with a fifth straight UFC win after all. Hours after he was announced as the winner over MarQuel Mederos in Miami on April 11, the promotion said a scoring error changed the official result to a majority draw. (sports.yahoo.com) The bout was fought on the preliminary card at Kaseya Center, and the corrected scores were 29-27 for Padilla and 28-28 on the other two cards. Multiple postfight result trackers, including Tapology, MMA Fighting and MMA Decisions, now list the fight as a majority draw. (tapology.com) (mmafighting.com) (mmadecisions.com) The confusion came after Bruce Buffer first read a majority decision for Padilla, then the UFC broadcast later said one score had been tabulated incorrectly. MMA Fighting and Yahoo Sports both reported that the corrected math produced a draw instead of a Padilla victory. (mmafighting.com) (sports.yahoo.com) That change matters for both lightweights because Padilla entered the night on a four-fight UFC winning streak, while Mederos came in on a nine-fight mixed martial arts winning streak overall. The revised result keeps Padilla unbeaten in the promotion but moves his UFC mark to 4-0-1 instead of 5-0, and it prevents Mederos from taking a loss on his official record. (tapology.com 1) (tapology.com 2) (sports.yahoo.com) The fight itself was close enough that a draw was plausible even before the correction. MMA News reported that Mederos bloodied Padilla with an elbow, and that Mederos also lost a point for an eye poke in the third round, a deduction that shaped the final totals. (mmanews.com) Independent score trackers reflected that split view. MMA Decisions showed media scores leaning toward Padilla, while two official 28-28 cards left the bout even after the point deduction was applied. (mmadecisions.com) The result switch also turned an early undercard win into one of the night’s main talking points. The Score called Padilla-Mederos an early Fight of the Night candidate, and Bloody Elbow said the overturned decision put judging back at the center of the conversation at UFC 327. (thescore.com) (bloodyelbow.com) So the cleanest way to read the record now is this: Padilla pushed Mederos hard for 15 minutes in Miami, heard his name announced, and still finished the night with a draw. (mmafighting.com)