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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Al Iaquinta vs Donald Cerrone
From the tape · 4 May 2019

Al Iaquinta vs Donald Cerrone

UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Result

Donald Cerrone beat Al Iaquinta

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

AI
Red corner AlIaquinta“Raging”Serra-Longo Fight Team · New York City, New York
VSOn the tape
DC
Blue corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
Lightweight5 rounds4 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Cerrone.
  • Has finished 16 of 22 UFC wins.
14-7-1
Record
36-17
−4 yr32
Age
36
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+1830
4/944% of wins
Finishes
+28%16/2273% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
BMF Ranch
New York City, New York
From
Broomfield, Colorado
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
Al Iaquinta19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 42BODY32%6 of 12LEGS16%3 of 4
Donald Cerrone20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 35BODY15%3 of 5LEGS25%5 of 5
19 of 58
Sig.
strikes
20 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstEric Colón9–10Jason Rodgers9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Al Iaquinta24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 41BODY21%5 of 9LEGS33%8 of 9
Donald Cerrone21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 57BODY14%3 of 4LEGS33%7 of 7
24 of 59
Sig.
strikes
21 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstEric Colón10–9Jason Rodgers10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Cerrone
Al Iaquinta18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 29BODY28%5 of 6LEGS22%4 of 4
Donald Cerrone28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 64BODY21%6 of 7LEGS25%7 of 7
18 of 39
Sig.
strikes
28 of 78
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstEric Colón9–10Jason Rodgers8–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 45:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Cerrone
Al Iaquinta9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 15BODY33%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Donald Cerrone26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 61BODY12%3 of 5LEGS23%6 of 6
9 of 20
Sig.
strikes
26 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstEric Colón8–10Jason Rodgers9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Al Iaquinta20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 38BODY20%4 of 6LEGS15%3 of 3
Donald Cerrone43 sig landed
HEAD74%32 of 85BODY5%2 of 4LEGS21%9 of 9
20 of 47
Sig.
strikes
43 of 98
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Iaquinta firstEric Colón9–10Jason Rodgers9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Jerin Valel
Al IaquintaDonald Cerrone
Official totals — Al Iaquinta first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide45–49
Jason Rodgers2.1 avg spread · 50% wide45–49
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide46–49

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 — 22 scored, Al Iaquinta first · unofficial

Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com45–49
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com45–49
MM ABrasil.com.br45–49
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com45–49
Peter Harrison Wrestling Observer46–49
MM AMania.com46–49
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com46–49
Youngs FanSided.com46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com46–49
Adam Martin Sherdog.com46–49
MM AJunkie.com46–49
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com46–49
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com46–49
Mike Straus MMAJA46–49
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com46–49
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com46–49
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–49
Keith Shillan FanSided.com46–49
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com45–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
Ant Walker Sherdog.com47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

49-45 Cerrone · 31%49-46 Cerrone · 29%48-47 Cerrone · 14%49-44 Cerrone · 12%50-45 Cerrone · 4%

110 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.

Al Iaquinta

0.63takedowns / 15 min
0.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.16 / 15m
3.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.52 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Al Iaquinta↑ +1.7pp
open 52.9%close 54.6%
Donald Cerrone↓ −1.7pp
open 47.1%close 45.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Al Iaquinta opened at 52.9% and closed at 54.6% (+1.7pp), with Donald Cerrone 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
Al Iaquinta-135-13452.9%54.6%+1.7pp
Donald Cerrone-10511047.1%45.4%−1.7pp
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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