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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards · Rafael Dos Anjos vs Leon Edwards
From the tape · 20 Jul 2019

Rafael Dos Anjos vs Leon Edwards

UFC Fight Night: Dos Anjos vs. Edwards · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Result

Leon Edwards beat Rafael Dos Anjos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · 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 Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LeonEdwards“Rocky”Team Renegade · Erdington, West Midlands
Welterweight5 rounds20 Jul 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • 27 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Edwards.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
32-17
Record
22-6
34
Age
−7 yr27
5' 8"
Height
+6″6' 2"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1627
UFC bouts
11
+11%8/1844% of wins
Finishes
3/933% of wins
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
From
Erdington, West Midlands
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
Rafael Dos Anjos8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 6BODY12%1 of 2LEGS50%4 of 4
Leon Edwards6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY17%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:07
Control
3:14
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Anjos firstGino Garcia9–10Perry Hillin9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 25BODY22%5 of 10LEGS30%7 of 8
Leon Edwards24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 55BODY12%3 of 4LEGS8%2 of 2
23 of 43
Sig.
strikes
24 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:18
Control
0:16
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstGino Garcia9–10Perry Hillin9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 18BODY9%1 of 1LEGS27%3 of 6
Leon Edwards25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 43BODY24%6 of 8LEGS4%1 of 1
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
25 of 52
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:37
Control
1:18
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstGino Garcia9–10Perry Hillin9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Rafael Dos Anjos22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 38BODY27%6 of 8LEGS23%5 of 7
Leon Edwards24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 49BODY8%2 of 3LEGS8%2 of 2
22 of 53
Sig.
strikes
24 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:07
Control
1:03
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anjos firstGino Garcia9–10Perry Hillin9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Dos Anjos17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 28BODY24%4 of 4LEGS24%4 of 4
Leon Edwards13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 29BODY15%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
17 of 36
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:14
Control
1:26
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Anjos firstGino Garcia9–10Perry Hillin10–9Marcos Rosales10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Rafael Dos AnjosLeon Edwards
Official totals — Rafael Dos Anjos first
JudgeTotal
Gino Garcia45–50
Perry Hillin46–49
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% 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 — 14 scored, Rafael Dos Anjos first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com45–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com45–50
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com45–50
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com45–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com45–50
MM AJunkie.com45–50
Peter Carroll MMAFighting.com45–50
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com46–49
Keith Shillan FanSided.com46–49
MM ABrasil.com.br46–49
Adam Martin Sherdog.com46–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com46–49
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com46–49
MM AMania.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Edwards · 39%50-45 Edwards · 38%48-47 Edwards · 12%48-47 dos Anjos · 7%50-46 Edwards · 1%

141 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.

Rafael Dos Anjos

1.95takedowns / 15 min
1.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.25 / 15m
5.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.38 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
37%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Leon Edwards

1.25takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Rafael Dos Anjos↓ −4.4pp
open 52.9%close 48.5%
Leon Edwards↑ +4.4pp
open 47.1%close 51.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Dos Anjos opened at 52.9% and closed at 48.5% (−4.4pp), with Leon Edwards 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
Rafael Dos Anjos-135-10352.9%48.5%−4.4pp
Leon Edwards-105-11747.1%51.5%+4.4pp
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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