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Events · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler · Colby Covington vs Robbie Lawler
From the tape · 3 Aug 2019

Colby Covington vs Robbie Lawler

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Lawler · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Colby Covington beat Robbie Lawler

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Keith Peterson

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 ColbyCovington“Chaos”MMA Masters · Springfield, Oregon
VSOn the tape
RL
Blue corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
Welterweight5 rounds3 Aug 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 13 UFC wins.
17-5
Record
30-16
−6 yr31
Age
37
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
10
UFC bouts
+1020
4/944% of wins
Finishes
+2%6/1346% of wins
MMA Masters
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Springfield, Oregon
From
San Diego, California
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
Colby Covington13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 26BODY15%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Robbie Lawler4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 12BODY25%1 of 5LEGS25%1 of 1
13 of 29
Sig.
strikes
4 of 18
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:57
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDominic Carolei10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Colby Covington33 sig landed
HEAD79%26 of 96BODY6%2 of 3LEGS15%5 of 6
Robbie Lawler6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 5BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
33 of 105
Sig.
strikes
6 of 7
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:18
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDominic Carolei10–9Eric Colón10–8Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Colby Covington41 sig landed
HEAD59%24 of 96BODY12%5 of 8LEGS29%12 of 13
Robbie Lawler23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 42BODY9%2 of 2LEGS17%4 of 4
41 of 117
Sig.
strikes
23 of 48
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:51
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDominic Carolei10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Colby Covington51 sig landed
HEAD75%38 of 115BODY8%4 of 6LEGS18%9 of 9
Robbie Lawler22 sig landed
HEAD86%19 of 39BODY9%2 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
51 of 130
Sig.
strikes
22 of 42
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:00
Distance 44Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDominic Carolei10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Colby Covington41 sig landed
HEAD73%30 of 121BODY17%7 of 9LEGS10%4 of 4
Robbie Lawler23 sig landed
HEAD83%19 of 46BODY17%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
41 of 134
Sig.
strikes
23 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDominic Carolei10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Colby CovingtonRobbie Lawler
Official totals — Colby Covington first
JudgeTotal
Dominic Carolei50–45
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–44
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide50–45

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 — 19 scored, Colby Covington first · unofficial

Keith Shillan FanSided.com50–44
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com50–44
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–44
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
John Brannigan Sherdog.com50–45
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–45
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com50–45
MM ABrasil.com.br50–45
Matthew Wells FanSided.com50–45
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Covington · 41%50-44 Covington · 32%50-43 Covington · 10%50-45 Lawler · 2%50-42 Covington · 2%

124 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.

Colby Covington

3.64takedowns / 15 min
3.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
8.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
64%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 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.

Colby Covington↑ +12.9pp
open 59.9%close 72.8%
Robbie Lawler↓ −12.9pp
open 40.1%close 27.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colby Covington opened at 59.9% and closed at 72.8% (+12.9pp), with Robbie Lawler 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
Colby Covington-175-31659.9%72.8%+12.9pp
Robbie Lawler13525240.1%27.2%−12.9pp
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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