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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Donald Cerrone vs Leon Edwards
From the tape · 23 Jun 2018

Donald Cerrone vs Leon Edwards

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Leon Edwards beat Donald Cerrone

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

DC
Red corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
Welterweight5 rounds23 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 14 of 20 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 27 UFC bouts deep — 18 more than Edwards.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
36-17
Record
22-6
35
Age
−9 yr26
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1827
UFC bouts
9
+27%14/2070% of wins
Finishes
3/743% of wins
BMF Ranch
Gym
Team Renegade
Broomfield, Colorado
From
Erdington, West Midlands
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
Donald Cerrone12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 13BODY58%7 of 9LEGS25%3 of 4
Leon Edwards16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 22BODY25%4 of 7LEGS19%3 of 3
12 of 26
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstHowie Booth9–10Evan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Donald Cerrone12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 13BODY67%8 of 10LEGS8%1 of 3
Leon Edwards16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 20BODY50%8 of 10LEGS12%2 of 2
12 of 26
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:44
Control
0:03
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstHowie Booth9–10Evan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Donald Cerrone15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 24BODY40%6 of 10LEGS7%1 of 3
Leon Edwards19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 29BODY26%5 of 5LEGS16%3 of 4
15 of 37
Sig.
strikes
19 of 38
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstHowie Booth10–9Evan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Donald Cerrone10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 7BODY50%5 of 5LEGS40%4 of 8
Leon Edwards15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 19BODY7%1 of 3LEGS40%6 of 9
10 of 20
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:57
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstHowie Booth9–10Evan Field10–9Charlie Keech10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Donald Cerrone11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 10BODY36%4 of 6LEGS36%4 of 6
Leon Edwards18 sig landed
HEAD17%3 of 15BODY6%1 of 2LEGS78%14 of 16
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
18 of 33
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:51
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstHowie Booth10–9Evan Field10–9Charlie Keech10–9

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 · Leon Roberts
Donald CerroneLeon Edwards
Official totals — Donald Cerrone first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide47–48
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide47–48
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide47–48

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, Donald Cerrone first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com46–49
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com46–49
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–49
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com46–49
Nolan King MMA- Today.com46–49
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport46–49
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com46–49
MM ABrasil.com.br46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
John Pollock POST Wrestling47–48
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com47–48
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com47–48
Milan Ordonez BloodyElbow.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Edwards · 35%48-47 Edwards · 30%48-47 Cerrone · 21%50-45 Edwards · 10%49-47 Edwards · 1%

189 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.

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.25 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
37%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Donald Cerrone↓ −25.1pp
open 56.7%close 31.5%
Leon Edwards↑ +25.1pp
open 43.3%close 68.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Donald Cerrone opened at 56.7% and closed at 31.5% (−25.1pp), with Leon Edwards 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
Donald Cerrone-15520656.7%31.5%−25.1pp
Leon Edwards115-24443.3%68.5%+25.1pp
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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