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Events · UFC Fight Night: Iaquinta vs. Cowboy · Mitch Gagnon vs Cole Smith
From the tape · 4 May 2019

Mitch Gagnon vs Cole Smith

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

Cole Smith beat Mitch Gagnon

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

MG
Red corner MitchGagnonTroop MMA · Sudbury, Ontario
VSOn the tape
CS
Blue corner ColeSmith“The Cole Train”Team Quest Thailand · Vancouver, British Columbia
Bantamweight3 rounds4 May 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
12-5
Record
7-2
34
Age
−4 yr30
5' 5"
Height
+6″5' 11"
65″
Reach
+2″67″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Troop MMA
Gym
Team Quest Thailand
Sudbury, Ontario
From
Vancouver, British Columbia
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
Mitch Gagnon7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 16BODY14%1 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
Cole Smith15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 13BODY27%4 of 12LEGS47%7 of 10
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
15 of 35
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:31
Control
1:46
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gagnon firstJason Rodgers9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Patricia VanderMeer9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mitch Gagnon5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 16BODY20%1 of 5LEGS0%0 of 2
Cole Smith15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 18BODY27%4 of 10LEGS40%6 of 7
5 of 23
Sig.
strikes
15 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:23
Control
2:30
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Gagnon firstJason Rodgers9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Patricia VanderMeer9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Gagnon3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Mitch Gagnon3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 10BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Cole Smith8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 10BODY12%1 of 4LEGS38%3 of 4
3 of 11
Sig.
strikes
8 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
3:48
1
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gagnon firstJason Rodgers10–9Dave Tirelli9–10Patricia VanderMeer10–9

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Mitch GagnonCole Smith
Official totals — Mitch Gagnon first
JudgeTotal
Jason Rodgers2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–30
Patricia VanderMeer28–29

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 — 13 scored, Mitch Gagnon first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Peter Harrison Wrestling Observer27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–30
Ant Walker Sherdog.com28–30
Pannie Tran FightMatrix.com28–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Smith · 62%30-28 Smith · 15%30-27 Smith · 15%29-28 Gagnon · 8%

13 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.

Mitch Gagnon

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.67 / 15m
4.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.06 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
33%
1.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Cole Smith

1.67takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Mitch Gagnon↓ −1.4pp
open 53.8%close 52.5%
Cole Smith↑ +1.4pp
open 46.2%close 47.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mitch Gagnon opened at 53.8% and closed at 52.5% (−1.4pp), with Cole Smith 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
Mitch Gagnon-140-12253.8%52.5%−1.4pp
Cole Smith10010146.2%47.5%+1.4pp
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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