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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · Leon Edwards vs Vicente Luque
From the tape · 18 Mar 2017

Leon Edwards vs Vicente Luque

UFC Fight Night: Manuwa vs. Anderson · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Leon Edwards beat Vicente Luque

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Grant Waterman

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 LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
VSOn the tape
Blue corner VicenteLuque“The Silent Assassin”Kill Cliff FC · Westwood, New Jersey
Welterweight3 rounds18 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Luque’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
22-6
Record
24-13-1
25
Age
25
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+16
UFC bouts
5
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+50%4/4100% of wins
Team Renegade
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Erdington, West Midlands
From
Westwood, New Jersey
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
Leon Edwards9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 16BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
Vicente Luque9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 8BODY22%2 of 3LEGS22%2 of 2
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
9 of 13
0 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:21
Control
3:00
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Edwards firstMark Collett9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Leon Edwards9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 12BODY33%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Vicente Luque0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:59
Control
1:13
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstMark Collett10–9Andy Roberts10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Leon Edwards35 sig landed
HEAD74%26 of 53BODY23%8 of 10LEGS3%1 of 2
Vicente Luque15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 19BODY33%5 of 6LEGS13%2 of 3
35 of 65
Sig.
strikes
15 of 28
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:52
Control
1:08
Distance 31Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstMark Collett10–9Andy Roberts10–9Paul Sutherland10–9

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 · Grant Waterman
Leon EdwardsVicente Luque
Official totals — Leon Edwards first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide29–28

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 — 14 scored, Leon Edwards first · unofficial

Sherdog.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Edwards · 61%29-28 Luque · 18%30-27 Edwards · 7%29-27 Edwards · 4%30-27 Luque · 2%

54 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.

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 15 min
1.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.89 / 15m
3.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.85 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
48%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Vicente Luque

0.89takedowns / 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.

Leon Edwards↑ +8.3pp
open 40.1%close 48.4%
Vicente Luque↓ −8.3pp
open 59.9%close 51.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Leon Edwards opened at 40.1% and closed at 48.4% (+8.3pp), with Vicente Luque 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
Leon Edwards135-10240.1%48.4%+8.3pp
Vicente Luque-175-11759.9%51.6%−8.3pp
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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