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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve · Leon Edwards vs Bryan Barberena
From the tape · 2 Sep 2017

Leon Edwards vs Bryan Barberena

UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Struve · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Result

Leon Edwards beat Bryan Barberena

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Neil Hall

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 BryanBarberena“Bam Bam”Gym-O · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Welterweight3 rounds2 Sep 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.7 more significant strikes a minute than Edwards.
22-6
Record
18-12
−2 yr26
Age
28
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+17
UFC bouts
6
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+35%3/475% of wins
Team Renegade
Gym
Gym-O
Erdington, West Midlands
From
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Leon Edwards4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 10BODY25%1 of 1LEGS50%2 of 2
Bryan Barberena5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY20%1 of 2LEGS80%4 of 7
4 of 13
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:27
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Barberena
Leon Edwards10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 17BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Bryan Barberena25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 38BODY24%6 of 6LEGS8%2 of 4
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
25 of 48
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:07
Control
1:25
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 14Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Leon Edwards9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS56%5 of 5
Bryan Barberena14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 20BODY14%2 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:33
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 9Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Neil Hall
Official totals — Leon Edwards first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 13 scored, Leon Edwards first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Edwards · 56%30-27 Barberena · 10%29-27 Barberena · 2%

41 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
0.13 / 15m
3.38 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.59 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
22%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Bryan Barberena

0.13takedowns / 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↓ −3.0pp
open 71.8%close 68.8%
Bryan Barberena↑ +3.0pp
open 28.2%close 31.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Leon Edwards opened at 71.8% and closed at 68.8% (−3.0pp), with Bryan Barberena 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 Edwards-315-24771.8%68.8%−3.0pp
Bryan Barberena23521028.2%31.2%+3.0pp
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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