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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos · Blagoy Ivanov vs Ben Rothwell
From the tape · 9 Mar 2019

Blagoy Ivanov vs Ben Rothwell

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos · Wichita, Kansas, USA
Result

Blagoy Ivanov beat Ben Rothwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

BI
Red corner BlagoyIvanov“Baga”SK Absolute Bulgaria · Sofia
VSOn the tape
BR
Blue corner BenRothwellRothwell MMA · Kenosha, Wisconsin
Heavyweight3 rounds9 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Ivanov.
19-6
Record
39-14
−5 yr32
Age
37
5' 11"
Height
+5″6' 4"
73″
Reach
+5″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+910
SK Absolute Bulgaria
Gym
Rothwell MMA
Sofia
From
Kenosha, Wisconsin
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
Blagoy Ivanov19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 31BODY42%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Rothwell9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS56%5 of 5
19 of 39
Sig.
strikes
9 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ivanov firstKevin Champion9–10Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Blagoy Ivanov29 sig landed
HEAD83%24 of 70BODY14%4 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
Ben Rothwell28 sig landed
HEAD75%21 of 48BODY7%2 of 6LEGS18%5 of 5
29 of 75
Sig.
strikes
28 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ivanov firstKevin Champion10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Blagoy Ivanov24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 55BODY29%7 of 7LEGS8%2 of 2
Ben Rothwell33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 70BODY12%4 of 4LEGS21%7 of 8
24 of 64
Sig.
strikes
33 of 82
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ivanov firstKevin Champion10–9Derek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Blagoy IvanovBen Rothwell
Official totals — Blagoy Ivanov first
JudgeTotal
Kevin Champion29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 16 scored, Blagoy Ivanov first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Rothwell · 50%30-27 Rothwell · 24%29-28 Ivanov · 18%30-27 Ivanov · 4%30-28 Rothwell · 3%

162 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.

Blagoy Ivanov

0.69takedowns / 15 min
0.69 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.68 / 15m
1.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
34%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Ben Rothwell

0.68takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Blagoy Ivanov↓ −4.9pp
open 51.9%close 47.0%
Ben Rothwell↑ +4.9pp
open 48.1%close 53.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Blagoy Ivanov opened at 51.9% and closed at 47.0% (−4.9pp), with Ben Rothwell 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
Blagoy Ivanov-13010451.9%47.0%−4.9pp
Ben Rothwell-110-12448.1%53.0%+4.9pp
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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