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History · 2015 · UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II · Edson Barboza vs Paul Felder
From the tape · 25 Jul 2015

Edson Barboza vs Paul Felder

UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Edson Barboza beat Paul Felder

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Robert Madrigal

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.

Red corner EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
PF
Blue corner PaulFelder“The Irish Dragon”Roufusport · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds25 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Felder.
24-15
Record
17-6
−2 yr29
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1012
UFC bouts
2
5/956% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Roufusport
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
Edson Barboza21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 26BODY43%9 of 11LEGS29%6 of 8
Paul Felder14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 37BODY14%2 of 5LEGS43%6 of 8
21 of 45
Sig.
strikes
14 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstKelvin Caldwell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Clay Goodman9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Edson Barboza23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 33BODY35%8 of 11LEGS39%9 of 10
Paul Felder24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 44BODY21%5 of 5LEGS29%7 of 10
23 of 54
Sig.
strikes
24 of 59
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstKelvin Caldwell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Clay Goodman10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Edson Barboza20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 19BODY25%5 of 7LEGS40%8 of 10
Paul Felder9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 33BODY22%2 of 5LEGS33%3 of 3
20 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:18
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barboza firstKelvin Caldwell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Clay Goodman10–9

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 · Robert Madrigal
Edson BarbozaPaul Felder
Official totals — Edson Barboza first
JudgeTotal
Kelvin Caldwell29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Clay Goodman29–28

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 — 13 scored, Edson Barboza first · unofficial

Cage Pages.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Wrestling Observer30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Barboza · 52%29-28 Barboza · 29%29-28 Felder · 12%30-28 Barboza · 2%

80 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.

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.29 / 15m
0.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.04 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
28%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Paul Felder

0.29takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Edson Barboza↓ −0.8pp
open 59.9%close 59.1%
Paul Felder↑ +0.8pp
open 40.1%close 40.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Edson Barboza opened at 59.9% and closed at 59.1% (−0.8pp), with Paul Felder 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
Edson Barboza-175-15759.9%59.1%−0.8pp
Paul Felder13513740.1%40.9%+0.8pp
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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