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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris · Giga Chikadze vs Irwin Rivera
From the tape · 16 May 2020

Giga Chikadze vs Irwin Rivera

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Giga Chikadze beat Irwin Rivera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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 GigaChikadze“Ninja”Kings MMA · Tbilisi
VSOn the tape
IR
Blue corner IrwinRivera“The Beast”Sanford MMA · New Windsor, New York
Featherweight3 rounds16 May 2020
15-6
Record
10-6
31
Age
31
+6″6' 0"
Height
5' 6"
+7″74″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Kings MMA
Gym
Sanford MMA
Tbilisi
From
New Windsor, New York
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
Giga Chikadze17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 22BODY29%5 of 6LEGS47%8 of 11
Irwin Rivera11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 27BODY18%2 of 5LEGS9%1 of 1
17 of 39
Sig.
strikes
11 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chikadze firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Giga Chikadze25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 39BODY20%5 of 6LEGS16%4 of 4
Irwin Rivera10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 18BODY30%3 of 6LEGS10%1 of 2
25 of 49
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chikadze firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD ChikadzeEnded 5:00
Giga Chikadze19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 39BODY16%3 of 4LEGS16%3 of 4
Irwin Rivera13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 26BODY38%5 of 7LEGS15%2 of 2
19 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:03
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Chikadze firstDerek Cleary10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Troy Wincapaw10–8

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
Giga ChikadzeIrwin Rivera
Official totals — Giga Chikadze first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide30–27
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% wide30–26

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, Giga Chikadze first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Chikadze · 74%30-26 Chikadze · 18%30-25 Chikadze · 2%30-26 Rivera · 2%29-28 Chikadze · 2%

49 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.

Giga Chikadze

0.18takedowns / 15 min
0.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
0.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.25 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
16%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Irwin Rivera

1.00takedowns / 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.

Giga Chikadze↑ +1.1pp
open 76.3%close 77.4%
Irwin Rivera↓ −1.1pp
open 23.7%close 22.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Giga Chikadze opened at 76.3% and closed at 77.4% (+1.1pp), with Irwin Rivera 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
Giga Chikadze-345-42476.3%77.4%+1.1pp
Irwin Rivera31532423.7%22.6%−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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