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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik · Irwin Rivera vs Ali AlQaisi
From the tape · 8 Aug 2020

Irwin Rivera vs Ali AlQaisi

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Irwin Rivera beat Ali AlQaisi

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

IR
Red corner IrwinRivera“The Beast”Sanford MMA · New Windsor, New York
VSOn the tape
AA
Blue corner AliAlQaisi“The Royal Fighter”Gladiator MMA · Amman
Bantamweight3 rounds8 Aug 2020
10-6
Record
8-5
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Sanford MMA
Gym
Gladiator MMA
New Windsor, New York
From
Amman
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 action1 sub attempt
Irwin Rivera6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 12BODY33%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Ali AlQaisi7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%2 of 2
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
7 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:45
Control
1:36
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstEric Colón9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Irwin Rivera13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 24BODY8%1 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
Ali AlQaisi18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 39BODY28%5 of 6LEGS17%3 of 3
13 of 29
Sig.
strikes
18 of 48
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:04
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstEric Colón10–9Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Irwin Rivera17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 25BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Ali AlQaisi19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 33BODY11%2 of 3LEGS21%4 of 5
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
19 of 41
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:13
Control
0:19
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rivera firstEric Colón10–9Dave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Irwin RiveraAli AlQaisi
Official totals — Irwin Rivera first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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, Irwin Rivera first · unofficial

Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Qaisi Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Qaisi Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Qaisi MMAMania.com28–29
Qaisi Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Al Qaisi · 50%29-28 Rivera · 38%30-27 Rivera · 4%29-27 Al Qaisi · 2%

52 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.

Irwin Rivera

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.50 / 15m
6.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
12.07 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
29%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ali AlQaisi

3.50takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Irwin Riveraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 60.0%
Ali AlQaisiclose only
no opening line on recordclose 40.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Irwin Rivera 60.0%, Ali AlQaisi 40.0%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Irwin Rivera-185-16460.0%
Ali AlQaisi14140.0%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Ali Al Qaisi, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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