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History · 2019 · UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes · Tai Tuivasa vs Blagoy Ivanov
From the tape · 8 Jun 2019

Tai Tuivasa vs Blagoy Ivanov

UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Blagoy Ivanov beat Tai Tuivasa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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 TaiTuivasa“Bam Bam”Lions High Performance Centre · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
BI
Blue corner BlagoyIvanov“Baga”SK Absolute Bulgaria · Sofia
Heavyweight3 rounds8 Jun 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Tuivasa.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Ivanov.
15-10
Record
19-6
−6 yr26
Age
32
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+24
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Lions High Performance Centre
Gym
SK Absolute Bulgaria
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Sofia
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⚡ 1 KD Ivanov
Tai Tuivasa14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 32BODY7%1 of 1LEGS21%3 of 4
Blagoy Ivanov22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 31BODY9%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 37
Sig.
strikes
22 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:48
Control
0:30
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstChris Lee9–10Brandon Mason9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tai Tuivasa27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 51BODY4%1 of 1LEGS33%9 of 10
Blagoy Ivanov30 sig landed
HEAD90%27 of 51BODY10%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 62
Sig.
strikes
30 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:24
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstChris Lee9–10Brandon Mason9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tai Tuivasa23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 31BODY17%4 of 5LEGS30%7 of 9
Blagoy Ivanov21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 32BODY10%2 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
23 of 45
Sig.
strikes
21 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:26
Control
2:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tuivasa firstChris Lee9–10Brandon Mason9–10

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
Tai TuivasaBlagoy Ivanov
Official totals — Tai Tuivasa first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Brandon Mason27–30

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 — 14 scored, Tai Tuivasa first · unofficial

Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Adam Martin Sherdog.com27–30
Ant Walker Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ivanov · 52%29-28 Ivanov · 25%29-28 Tuivasa · 7%30-26 Ivanov · 7%29-27 Ivanov · 5%

56 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.

Tai Tuivasa

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.69 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.72 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
40%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Blagoy Ivanov

0.69takedowns / 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.

Tai Tuivasa↑ +1.6pp
open 58.3%close 60.0%
Blagoy Ivanov↓ −1.6pp
open 41.7%close 40.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tai Tuivasa opened at 58.3% and closed at 60.0% (+1.6pp), with Blagoy Ivanov 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
Tai Tuivasa-165-16658.3%60.0%+1.6pp
Blagoy Ivanov12514041.7%40.0%−1.6pp
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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