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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Cub Swanson vs Artem Lobov
From the tape · 22 Apr 2017

Cub Swanson vs Artem Lobov

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Cub Swanson beat Artem Lobov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner CubSwansonUFC Gym Costa Mesa · Palm Springs, California
VSOn the tape
AL
Blue corner ArtemLobov“The Russian Hammer”SBG Ireland · Dublin
Featherweight5 rounds22 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
31-14
Record
13-15-1
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
+5″70″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+812
UFC bouts
4
4/944% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
UFC Gym Costa Mesa
Gym
SBG Ireland
Palm Springs, California
From
Dublin
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Cub Swanson23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 21BODY26%6 of 9LEGS35%8 of 10
Artem Lobov29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 31BODY17%5 of 7LEGS41%12 of 14
23 of 40
Sig.
strikes
29 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:42
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Swanson firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cub Swanson37 sig landed
HEAD57%21 of 33BODY35%13 of 15LEGS8%3 of 3
Artem Lobov22 sig landed
HEAD45%10 of 24BODY23%5 of 8LEGS32%7 of 8
37 of 51
Sig.
strikes
22 of 40
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:28
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 9Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Cub Swanson63 sig landed
HEAD54%34 of 47BODY19%12 of 12LEGS27%17 of 18
Artem Lobov24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 57BODY4%1 of 3LEGS21%5 of 8
63 of 77
Sig.
strikes
24 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:08
Control
0:06
Distance 58Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Cub Swanson44 sig landed
HEAD59%26 of 45BODY14%6 of 7LEGS27%12 of 12
Artem Lobov27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 50BODY7%2 of 9LEGS4%1 of 2
44 of 64
Sig.
strikes
27 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:22
Distance 40Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cub Swanson42 sig landed
HEAD57%24 of 44BODY24%10 of 12LEGS19%8 of 8
Artem Lobov21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 43BODY19%4 of 8LEGS10%2 of 4
42 of 64
Sig.
strikes
21 of 55
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:47
Control
0:38
Distance 32Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9Jeff Mullen10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Cub SwansonArtem Lobov
Official totals — Cub Swanson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide50–45

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 — 18 scored, Cub Swanson first · unofficial

Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com50–45
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com49–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
John Pollock Fight Network49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com49–46
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com49–46
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com49–46
Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Swanson · 59%48-47 Swanson · 13%50-45 Swanson · 11%48-47 Lobov · 3%50-46 Swanson · 3%

100 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.

Cub Swanson

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.56 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
25%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Artem Lobov

0.39takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Cub Swanson↑ +3.1pp
open 79.8%close 82.9%
Artem Lobov↓ −3.1pp
open 20.2%close 17.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cub Swanson opened at 79.8% and closed at 82.9% (+3.1pp), with Artem Lobov 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
Cub Swanson-555-62479.8%82.9%+3.1pp
Artem Lobov36546220.2%17.1%−3.1pp
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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