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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez
From the tape · 30 Mar 2019

Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Gaethje · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Michelle Waterson-Gomez beat Karolina Kowalkiewicz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 KarolinaKowalkiewiczAmerican Top Team · Lodz
VSOn the tape
MW
Blue corner MichelleWaterson-GomezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Women's Strawweight3 rounds30 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Lands 2.1 more significant strikes a minute than Waterson-Gomez.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
16-10
Record
18-13
33
Age
33
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
+2″64″
Reach
62″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+28
UFC bouts
6
0/50% of wins
Finishes
+50%2/450% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Lodz
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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
Karolina Kowalkiewicz29 sig landed
HEAD17%5 of 25BODY28%8 of 11LEGS55%16 of 22
Michelle Waterson-Gomez18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 42BODY28%5 of 9LEGS33%6 of 11
29 of 58
Sig.
strikes
18 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
0:08
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kowalkiewicz firstWilfredo Cintron9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Karolina Kowalkiewicz12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 13BODY33%4 of 5LEGS25%3 of 4
Michelle Waterson-Gomez22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 17BODY27%6 of 8LEGS41%9 of 10
12 of 22
Sig.
strikes
22 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
2:45
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 6
Judges · this round · Kowalkiewicz firstWilfredo Cintron9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Karolina Kowalkiewicz16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 23BODY50%8 of 11LEGS12%2 of 4
Michelle Waterson-Gomez24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 34BODY25%6 of 9LEGS29%7 of 9
16 of 38
Sig.
strikes
24 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:33
Control
0:42
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kowalkiewicz firstWilfredo Cintron9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Cardo Urso9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Karolina KowalkiewiczMichelle Waterson-Gomez
Official totals — Karolina Kowalkiewicz first
JudgeTotal
Wilfredo Cintron27–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–30
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30

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 — 24 scored, Karolina Kowalkiewicz first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Nolan King FloCombat27–30
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily27–30
Phil Murphy ESPN27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Greg Rosenstein ESPN.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30
Mike Straus MMAJA27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Waterson-Gomez · 76%29-28 Waterson-Gomez · 21%30-26 Waterson-Gomez · 3%

33 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.

Karolina Kowalkiewicz

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.39 / 15m
1.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.21 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

1.39takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Karolina Kowalkiewicz vs Michelle Waterson-Gomez.

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