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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gaethje · Louis Smolka vs Ryan MacDonald
From the tape · 14 Sep 2019

Louis Smolka vs Ryan MacDonald

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Gaethje · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Result

Louis Smolka beat Ryan MacDonald

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:43
BantamweightMain cardReferee · John Cooper

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.

LS
Red corner LouisSmolka“Da Last Samurai”Team Oyama · Waipahu, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RyanMacDonald“Main Event”Disorderly Conduct · North Platte, Nebraska
Bantamweight3 rounds14 Sep 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than MacDonald.
17-9
Record
10-2
28
Age
−2 yr26
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
68″
Reach
+3″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+1112
UFC bouts
1
Team Oyama
Gym
Disorderly Conduct
Waipahu, Hawaii
From
North Platte, Nebraska
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:43 of action⚡ 1 KD SmolkaEnded 4:43
Louis Smolka59 sig landed
HEAD46%27 of 61BODY53%31 of 52LEGS2%1 of 2
Ryan MacDonald30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 65BODY20%6 of 11LEGS13%4 of 4
59 of 115
Sig.
strikes
30 of 80
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:09
Control
0:05
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 57Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Louis Smolka

Round
1
Clock
4:43
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John Cooper.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Louis Smolka

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.69takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 1.80 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.73 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS53
1.69 / 15m−0.39 vs field
ATTEMPTS52
4.83 / 15m−0.71 vs field
ACCURACY48
35%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT90
1.80 / 15m+0.73 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Louis Smolka↑ +2.2pp
open 65.3%close 67.5%
Ryan MacDonald↓ −2.2pp
open 34.7%close 32.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Louis Smolka opened at 65.3% and closed at 67.5% (+2.2pp), with Ryan MacDonald 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
Louis Smolka-230-23865.3%67.5%+2.2pp
Ryan MacDonald17019534.7%32.5%−2.2pp
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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