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Events · UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Ashley Yoder vs Livinha Souza
From the tape · 15 Aug 2020

Ashley Yoder vs Livinha Souza

UFC 252: Miocic vs. Cormier 3 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Livinha Souza beat Ashley Yoder

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

AY
Red corner AshleyYoder“SpiderMonkey”Team Quest · Temecula, California
VSOn the tape
LS
Blue corner LivinhaSouza“The Brazilian Gangsta”Araraquara, Sao Paulo
Women's Strawweight3 rounds15 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Souza.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Yoder.
8-9
Record
14-4
32
Age
−3 yr29
+4″5' 7"
Height
5' 3"
+6″69″
Reach
63″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+36
UFC bouts
3
0/20% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Temecula, California
From
Araraquara, Sao Paulo
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
Ashley Yoder6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 15BODY33%2 of 5LEGS17%1 of 2
Livinha Souza10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 13BODY20%2 of 3LEGS10%1 of 3
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
10 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:12
Control
1:26
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Yoder firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ashley Yoder6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 16BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
Livinha Souza13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 8BODY31%4 of 4LEGS46%6 of 6
6 of 20
Sig.
strikes
13 of 18
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:26
Control
0:31
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Yoder firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ashley Yoder20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 61BODY20%4 of 7LEGS5%1 of 4
Livinha Souza23 sig landed
HEAD22%5 of 12BODY9%2 of 4LEGS70%16 of 17
20 of 72
Sig.
strikes
23 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:12
Control
0:46
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yoder firstMichael Bell10–9Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Ashley YoderLivinha Souza
Official totals — Ashley Yoder first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Ashley Yoder first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yoder · 56%29-28 Souza · 28%30-27 Yoder · 9%30-27 Souza · 3%

100 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.

Ashley Yoder

1.09takedowns / 15 min
1.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.54 / 15m
4.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.64 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
45%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Livinha Souza

2.54takedowns / 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 (4.04 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Strawweight

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.

Ashley Yoder↓ −2.1pp
open 38.4%close 36.3%
Livinha Souza↑ +2.1pp
open 61.6%close 63.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ashley Yoder opened at 38.4% and closed at 36.3% (−2.1pp), with Livinha Souza 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
Ashley Yoder15016638.4%36.3%−2.1pp
Livinha Souza-180-19461.6%63.7%+2.1pp
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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