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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez · James Vick vs Paul Felder
From the tape · 17 Feb 2019

James Vick vs Paul Felder

UFC Fight Night: Ngannou vs. Velasquez · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Paul Felder beat James Vick

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

JV
Red corner JamesVick“The Texecutioner”Team Lloyd Irvin · Mineral Wells, Texas
VSOn the tape
PF
Blue corner PaulFelder“The Irish Dragon”Roufusport · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lightweight3 rounds17 Feb 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Felder.
13-5
Record
17-6
−3 yr31
Age
34
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+6″76″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
11
5/956% of wins
Finishes
+16%5/771% of wins
Team Lloyd Irvin
Gym
Roufusport
Mineral Wells, Texas
From
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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
James Vick22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 34BODY23%5 of 6LEGS36%8 of 9
Paul Felder20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 36BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%8 of 11
22 of 49
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:31
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Raul Porrata9–10
Round 25:00 of action
James Vick19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 15BODY32%6 of 9LEGS32%6 of 7
Paul Felder12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 20BODY17%2 of 5LEGS25%3 of 7
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:03
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Raul Porrata10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
James Vick20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 26BODY25%5 of 6LEGS35%7 of 9
Paul Felder23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 23BODY9%2 of 3LEGS39%9 of 14
20 of 41
Sig.
strikes
23 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:39
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vick firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Raul Porrata9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
James VickPaul Felder
Official totals — James Vick first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Raul Porrata28–29

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 — 20 scored, James Vick first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jordan Colbert Sherdog.com27–30
Ant Walker Sherdog.com27–30
Adam Martin Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Felder · 48%29-28 Felder · 44%29-28 Vick · 6%30-27 Vick · 2%

52 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.

James Vick

0.26takedowns / 15 min
0.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.29 / 15m
0.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.04 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
28%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Paul Felder

0.29takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

James Vick↑ +11.2pp
open 40.1%close 51.3%
Paul Felder↓ −11.2pp
open 59.9%close 48.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

James Vick opened at 40.1% and closed at 51.3% (+11.2pp), with Paul Felder 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
James Vick135-11740.1%51.3%+11.2pp
Paul Felder-175-10559.9%48.7%−11.2pp
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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