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History · 2011 · UFC Fight Night: Shields vs Ellenberger · Justin Edwards vs Jorge Lopez
From the tape · 17 Sep 2011

Justin Edwards vs Jorge Lopez

UFC Fight Night: Shields vs Ellenberger · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Justin Edwards beat Jorge Lopez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Mulhall

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

JE
Red corner JustinEdwards“Fast Eddy”Team Jorge Gurgel · Cincinnati, Ohio
VSOn the tape
JL
Blue corner JorgeLopezMexico City
Welterweight3 rounds17 Sep 2011
9-5
Record
11-5
28
Age
−6 yr22
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Cincinnati, Ohio
From
Mexico City
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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 action1 sub attempt
Justin Edwards20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 22BODY40%8 of 8LEGS15%3 of 4
Jorge Lopez15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 22BODY13%2 of 2LEGS20%3 of 3
20 of 34
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
0 of 10
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:09
Control
0:57
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 12Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 11Ground 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 action1 sub attempt
Justin Edwards16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 23BODY31%5 of 5LEGS6%1 of 2
Jorge Lopez6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 10BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 30
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:06
Control
1:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
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
Justin Edwards5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 5BODY80%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Lopez21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 23BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
21 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:08
Control
4:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 19
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 - Unanimous

Referee · Kevin Mulhall
Official totals — Justin Edwards first
JudgeTotal
Gabe Barahona29–28
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide29–28
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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

The level change — head to head

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

Justin Edwards

2.14takedowns / 15 min
2.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.50 / 15m
8.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.54 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
41%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jorge Lopez

3.50takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Justin Edwards↓ −1.8pp
open 24.8%close 23.0%
Jorge Lopez↑ +1.8pp
open 75.2%close 77.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Justin Edwards opened at 24.8% and closed at 23.0% (−1.8pp), with Jorge Lopez moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Justin Edwards29032024.8%23.0%−1.8pp
Jorge Lopez-350-39075.2%77.0%+1.8pp
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 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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