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Events · UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill · Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Angela Hill
From the tape · 12 Sep 2020

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Angela Hill

UFC Fight Night: Waterson vs. Hill · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michelle Waterson-Gomez beat Angela Hill

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Women's StrawweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

MW
Red corner MichelleWaterson-GomezJackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AngelaHill“Overkill”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Women's Strawweight5 rounds12 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Waterson-Gomez.
18-13
Record
19-16
−1 yr34
Age
35
5' 3"
Height
5' 3"
62″
Reach
+2″64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+615
+11%2/540% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Alliance MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
San Diego, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Michelle Waterson-Gomez21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 39BODY24%5 of 6LEGS43%9 of 12
Angela Hill26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 44BODY42%11 of 11LEGS4%1 of 1
21 of 57
Sig.
strikes
26 of 56
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:50
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michelle Waterson-Gomez31 sig landed
HEAD52%16 of 56BODY29%9 of 16LEGS19%6 of 6
Angela Hill33 sig landed
HEAD61%20 of 47BODY36%12 of 14LEGS3%1 of 1
31 of 78
Sig.
strikes
33 of 62
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:29
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Michelle Waterson-Gomez13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 30BODY23%3 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Angela Hill11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 19BODY18%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 34
Sig.
strikes
11 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:30
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Michelle Waterson-Gomez26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 40BODY35%9 of 12LEGS12%3 of 6
Angela Hill22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 32BODY36%8 of 13LEGS5%1 of 1
26 of 58
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:42
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michelle Waterson-Gomez37 sig landed
HEAD51%19 of 69BODY38%14 of 22LEGS11%4 of 6
Angela Hill39 sig landed
HEAD67%26 of 52BODY31%12 of 22LEGS3%1 of 1
37 of 97
Sig.
strikes
39 of 75
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:09
Distance 35Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Waterson-Gomez firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Michelle Waterson-GomezAngela Hill
Official totals — Michelle Waterson-Gomez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide47–48

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 — 21 scored, Michelle Waterson-Gomez first · unofficial

Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com49–46
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com48–47
Bloody Elbow.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com48–47
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges48–47
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com48–47
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press48–47
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
Steven Marrocco MMAFighting.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com47–48
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com47–48
Phil Murphy ESPN47–48
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Nick Baldwin theScore47–48
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com47–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–48
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Hill · 52%48-47 Waterson-Gomez · 36%49-46 Waterson-Gomez · 3%49-46 Hill · 2%

454 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.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez

1.39takedowns / 15 min
1.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
4.21 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
30%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Angela Hill

0.75takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Michelle Waterson-Gomez vs Angela Hill.

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