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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Matt Schnell vs Naoki Inoue
From the tape · 23 Jun 2018

Matt Schnell vs Naoki Inoue

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

Matt Schnell beat Naoki Inoue

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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 MattSchnell“Danger”Fortis MMA · Shreveport, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
NI
Blue corner NaokiInoueKill Cliff FC · Toyohashi, Aichi
Flyweight3 rounds23 Jun 2018
17-11
Record
11-1
28
Age
−7 yr21
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Shreveport, Louisiana
From
Toyohashi, Aichi
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 Schnell25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 45BODY4%1 of 3LEGS40%10 of 11
Naoki Inoue16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 56BODY0%0 landedLEGS19%3 of 7
25 of 59
Sig.
strikes
16 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstEvan Field10–9Garth Harriman9–10Charlie Keech10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Schnell23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 45BODY9%2 of 4LEGS30%7 of 11
Naoki Inoue10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 61BODY0%0 of 1LEGS10%1 of 5
23 of 60
Sig.
strikes
10 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstEvan Field10–9Garth Harriman10–9Charlie Keech10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Schnell23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 51BODY9%2 of 5LEGS26%6 of 8
Naoki Inoue22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 55BODY9%2 of 3LEGS32%7 of 8
23 of 64
Sig.
strikes
22 of 66
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:37
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Schnell firstEvan Field9–10Garth Harriman9–10Charlie Keech9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Steve Perceval
Matt SchnellNaoki Inoue
Official totals — Matt Schnell first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 13 scored, Matt Schnell first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Milan Ordonez BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Anton Tabuena BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Inoue · 47%29-28 Schnell · 43%30-27 Inoue · 3%30-29 Schnell · 3%

30 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 Schnell

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
45%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.50 / 15m

Naoki Inoue

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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 Schnell↓ −5.1pp
open 41.7%close 36.5%
Naoki Inoue↑ +5.1pp
open 58.3%close 63.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Schnell opened at 41.7% and closed at 36.5% (−5.1pp), with Naoki Inoue 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 Schnell12516541.7%36.5%−5.1pp
Naoki Inoue-165-19058.3%63.5%+5.1pp
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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