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Events · UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2 · Ross Pearson vs Paul Felder
From the tape · 5 Sep 2015

Ross Pearson vs Paul Felder

UFC 191: Johnson vs Dodson 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ross Pearson beat Paul Felder

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

RP
Red corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
PF
Blue corner PaulFelder“The Irish Dragon”Roufusport · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds5 Sep 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Felder.
20-16
Record
17-6
−1 yr30
Age
31
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1316
UFC bouts
3
5/956% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Central Coast MMA
Gym
Roufusport
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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
Ross Pearson6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 8BODY67%4 of 4LEGS17%1 of 1
Paul Felder19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 16BODY42%8 of 10LEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 13
Sig.
strikes
19 of 27
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:24
Control
1:50
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 11Ground 5
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ross Pearson27 sig landed
HEAD33%9 of 28BODY41%11 of 16LEGS26%7 of 7
Paul Felder22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 48BODY18%4 of 4LEGS32%7 of 8
27 of 51
Sig.
strikes
22 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson29 sig landed
HEAD62%18 of 37BODY24%7 of 9LEGS14%4 of 6
Paul Felder19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 58BODY16%3 of 3LEGS16%3 of 3
29 of 52
Sig.
strikes
19 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:41
Control
0:03
Distance 27Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Cardo Urso9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Ross PearsonPaul Felder
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 14 scored, Ross Pearson first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pearson · 41%29-28 Felder · 26%30-27 Pearson · 21%30-27 Felder · 7%

70 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.

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.29 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.04 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 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.

Ross Pearson↓ −12.1pp
open 33.9%close 21.7%
Paul Felder↑ +12.1pp
open 66.1%close 78.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 33.9% and closed at 21.7% (−12.1pp), 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
Ross Pearson17534533.9%21.7%−12.1pp
Paul Felder-245-42566.1%78.3%+12.1pp
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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