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History · 2015 · UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Mike Pyle vs Colby Covington
From the tape · 23 May 2015

Mike Pyle vs Colby Covington

UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Colby Covington beat Mike Pyle

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

MP
Red corner MikePyle“Quicksand”Syndicate MMA · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ColbyCovington“Chaos”MMA Masters · Springfield, Oregon
Welterweight3 rounds23 May 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Covington.
  • Averages 1.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pyle.
27-14-1
Record
17-5
39
Age
−12 yr27
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1214
UFC bouts
2
6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Syndicate MMA
Gym
MMA Masters
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Springfield, Oregon
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. 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.

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
Mike Pyle3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 4BODY33%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Colby Covington3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 12BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
3 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
4:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pyle firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mike Pyle6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 3BODY67%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Colby Covington13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 20BODY0%0 landedLEGS15%2 of 2
6 of 9
Sig.
strikes
13 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
3:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 5
Judges · this round · Pyle firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Mike Pyle7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 1
Colby Covington10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:41
Control
3:50
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 10
Judges · this round · Pyle firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9Marcos Rosales9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Mike PyleColby Covington
Official totals — Mike Pyle first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide27–30

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 — 15 scored, Mike Pyle first · unofficial

Wrestling Observer27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Covington · 47%30-27 Covington · 47%29-28 Pyle · 6%

32 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.

Mike Pyle

1.80takedowns / 15 min
1.80 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.64 / 15m
5.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.67 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
42%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Colby Covington

3.64takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Mike Pyle↓ −8.6pp
open 35.6%close 27.0%
Colby Covington↑ +8.6pp
open 64.4%close 73.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mike Pyle opened at 35.6% and closed at 27.0% (−8.6pp), with Colby Covington 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
Mike Pyle16525735.6%27.0%−8.6pp
Colby Covington-215-31264.4%73.0%+8.6pp
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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