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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai · Cole Smith vs Hunter Azure
From the tape · 5 Sep 2020

Cole Smith vs Hunter Azure

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Sakai · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Hunter Azure beat Cole Smith

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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.

CS
Red corner ColeSmith“The Cole Train”Team Quest Thailand · Vancouver, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
HA
Blue corner HunterAzureFight Ready · Poplar, Montana
Bantamweight3 rounds5 Sep 2020
7-2
Record
9-2
31
Age
−3 yr28
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Team Quest Thailand
Gym
Fight Ready
Vancouver, British Columbia
From
Poplar, Montana
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⚡ 1 KD Azure1 sub attempt
Cole Smith11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 14BODY55%6 of 13LEGS18%2 of 2
Hunter Azure26 sig landed
HEAD73%19 of 22BODY4%1 of 1LEGS23%6 of 6
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
26 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:32
Control
2:48
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 10
Judges · this round · Smith firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Cole Smith11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 8BODY9%1 of 2LEGS36%4 of 7
Hunter Azure6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 9BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
1 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:43
Control
3:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Smith firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Cole Smith9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 21BODY11%1 of 10LEGS11%1 of 4
Hunter Azure10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 12BODY30%3 of 3LEGS10%1 of 1
9 of 35
Sig.
strikes
10 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:58
Control
1:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Smith firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Hagen10–9

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
Cole SmithHunter Azure
Official totals — Cole Smith first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% 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, Cole Smith first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Azure · 95%30-27 Azure · 5%

21 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.

Cole Smith

1.67takedowns / 15 min
1.67 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
5.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.79 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
34%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Hunter Azure

1.97takedowns / 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.

Cole Smith↓ −6.9pp
open 37.2%close 30.3%
Hunter Azure↑ +6.9pp
open 62.8%close 69.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cole Smith opened at 37.2% and closed at 30.3% (−6.9pp), with Hunter Azure 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
Cole Smith16021937.2%30.3%−6.9pp
Hunter Azure-185-26062.8%69.7%+6.9pp
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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