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Events · UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Matt Bessette vs Enrique Barzola
From the tape · 20 Jan 2018

Matt Bessette vs Enrique Barzola

UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Enrique Barzola beat Matt Bessette

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Steve Rita

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.

MB
Red corner MattBessette“The Mangler”Underdog Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu · Bristol, Connecticut
VSOn the tape
EB
Blue corner EnriqueBarzola“El Fuerte”El Agustino, Lima
Featherweight3 rounds20 Jan 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bessette.
22-9
Record
17-5-2
33
Age
−5 yr28
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Bristol, Connecticut
From
El Agustino, Lima
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
Matt Bessette11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 37BODY36%4 of 14LEGS0%0 of 1
Enrique Barzola15 sig landed
HEAD20%3 of 19BODY47%7 of 8LEGS33%5 of 7
11 of 52
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:57
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Bessette firstDouglas Crosby9–10David Ginsberg9–10Mike Mena9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Bessette9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 25BODY56%5 of 7LEGS11%1 of 1
Enrique Barzola17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 18BODY24%4 of 7LEGS35%6 of 6
9 of 33
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:00
Control
2:13
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Bessette firstDouglas Crosby9–10David Ginsberg9–10Mike Mena9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Bessette23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 51BODY26%6 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Enrique Barzola23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 46BODY9%2 of 2LEGS26%6 of 9
23 of 61
Sig.
strikes
23 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
1:22
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Bessette firstDouglas Crosby10–9David Ginsberg9–10Mike Mena10–9

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 · Steve Rita
Matt BessetteEnrique Barzola
Official totals — Matt Bessette first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby28–29
David Ginsberg27–30
Mike Mena28–29

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 — 19 scored, Matt Bessette first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAFighting.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Youngs FanSided.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Nolan King MMA- Today.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com28–29
Josh Nason Wrestling Observer28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Barzola · 60%29-28 Barzola · 27%29-28 Bessette · 13%

15 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.

Matt Bessette

0.64takedowns / 15 min
0.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.20 / 15m
2.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.33 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
45%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Enrique Barzola

4.20takedowns / 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.

Matt Bessette↓ −7.1pp
open 35.6%close 28.5%
Enrique Barzola↑ +7.1pp
open 64.4%close 71.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Bessette opened at 35.6% and closed at 28.5% (−7.1pp), with Enrique Barzola 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
Matt Bessette16524035.6%28.5%−7.1pp
Enrique Barzola-215-28264.4%71.5%+7.1pp
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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