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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Cub Swanson vs Shane Burgos
From the tape · 4 May 2019

Cub Swanson vs Shane Burgos

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

Shane Burgos beat Cub Swanson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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 CubSwansonUFC Gym Costa Mesa · Palm Springs, California
VSOn the tape
SB
Blue corner ShaneBurgos“Hurricane”Team Tiger Schulmann · Woodbury, New York
Featherweight3 rounds4 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Swanson.
31-14
Record
15-3
35
Age
−7 yr28
5' 8"
Height
+3″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+5″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1116
UFC bouts
5
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+10%2/450% of wins
UFC Gym Costa Mesa
Gym
Team Tiger Schulmann
Palm Springs, California
From
Woodbury, New York
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
Cub Swanson37 sig landed
HEAD49%18 of 42BODY14%5 of 11LEGS38%14 of 20
Shane Burgos41 sig landed
HEAD59%24 of 60BODY12%5 of 9LEGS29%12 of 12
37 of 73
Sig.
strikes
41 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstEric Colón10–9David Therien10–9Declan Woods9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cub Swanson43 sig landed
HEAD60%26 of 73BODY12%5 of 9LEGS28%12 of 14
Shane Burgos48 sig landed
HEAD65%31 of 75BODY10%5 of 7LEGS25%12 of 13
43 of 96
Sig.
strikes
48 of 95
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 41Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 48Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstEric Colón9–10David Therien10–9Declan Woods9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cub Swanson49 sig landed
HEAD45%22 of 52BODY8%4 of 6LEGS47%23 of 29
Shane Burgos45 sig landed
HEAD60%27 of 73BODY18%8 of 9LEGS22%10 of 10
49 of 87
Sig.
strikes
45 of 92
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:00
Distance 35Clinch 9Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstEric Colón9–10David Therien10–9Declan Woods9–10

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 · Yves Lavigne
Cub SwansonShane Burgos
Official totals — Cub Swanson first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Declan Woods27–30

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 — 17 scored, Cub Swanson first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com27–30
Mike Straus MMAJA28–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Peter Harrison Wrestling Observer28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Burgos · 34%30-27 Burgos · 33%29-28 Swanson · 20%30-27 Swanson · 8%30-29 Swanson · 1%

90 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.

Cub Swanson

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.43 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.98 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
44%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Shane Burgos

0.43takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Cub Swanson↓ −21.5pp
open 59.9%close 38.5%
Shane Burgos↑ +21.5pp
open 40.1%close 61.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cub Swanson opened at 59.9% and closed at 38.5% (−21.5pp), with Shane Burgos 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
Cub Swanson-17515059.9%38.5%−21.5pp
Shane Burgos135-17840.1%61.5%+21.5pp
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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