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Events · UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar · Max Holloway vs Frankie Edgar
From the tape · 27 Jul 2019

Max Holloway vs Frankie Edgar

UFC 240: Holloway vs. Edgar · Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Result

Max Holloway beat Frankie Edgar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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 MaxHolloway“Blessed”Waianae, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
FE
Blue corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
Featherweight Title5 rounds27 Jul 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Lands 3.1 more significant strikes a minute than Edgar.
  • 24 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Holloway.
28-9
Record
23-11-1
−10 yr27
Age
37
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
20
UFC bouts
+424
+28%11/1669% of wins
Finishes
7/1741% of wins
Waianae, Hawaii
From
Toms River, New Jersey
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
Max Holloway13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 42BODY31%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 40BODY17%3 of 8LEGS28%5 of 5
13 of 48
Sig.
strikes
18 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDave Hagen9–10Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Max Holloway27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 60BODY19%5 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 44BODY8%1 of 6LEGS31%4 of 5
27 of 69
Sig.
strikes
13 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:05
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Max Holloway30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 52BODY27%8 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 36BODY35%6 of 10LEGS6%1 of 2
30 of 61
Sig.
strikes
17 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
0:59
Distance 22Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Max Holloway29 sig landed
HEAD93%27 of 72BODY7%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 35BODY27%6 of 9LEGS9%2 of 3
29 of 76
Sig.
strikes
22 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:00
Control
0:28
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Holloway30 sig landed
HEAD97%29 of 69BODY3%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Edgar26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 40BODY19%5 of 15LEGS23%6 of 6
30 of 74
Sig.
strikes
26 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:14
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Holloway firstDave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Max HollowayFrankie Edgar
Official totals — Max Holloway first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide48–47

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 — 21 scored, Max Holloway first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Phil Murphy ESPN50–45
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com50–45
Ant Walker Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com50–45
Steve Duncan mma.uno50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport50–45
John Pollock POST Wrestling50–45
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–45
Keith Shillan FanSided.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Ryan Pike WrestlingObserver.com48–47
MM ABrasil.com.br48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Holloway · 42%49-46 Holloway · 36%48-47 Holloway · 10%48-47 Edgar · 7%50-46 Holloway · 1%

288 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.

Max Holloway

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.29 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.39 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
31%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 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.

Max Holloway↑ +1.1pp
open 73.1%close 74.2%
Frankie Edgar↓ −1.1pp
open 26.9%close 25.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Holloway opened at 73.1% and closed at 74.2% (+1.1pp), with Frankie Edgar 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
Max Holloway-350-34373.1%74.2%+1.1pp
Frankie Edgar25027226.9%25.8%−1.1pp
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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