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Events · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley · Andre Ewell vs Irwin Rivera
From the tape · 19 Sep 2020

Andre Ewell vs Irwin Rivera

UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Andre Ewell beat Irwin Rivera

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.

AE
Red corner AndreEwell“Mr. Highlight”Apex MMA · Riverside, California
VSOn the tape
IR
Blue corner IrwinRivera“The Beast”Sanford MMA · New Windsor, New York
Bantamweight3 rounds19 Sep 2020
17-9
Record
10-6
32
Age
−1 yr31
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+8″75″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+35
UFC bouts
2
0/30% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Apex MMA
Gym
Sanford MMA
Riverside, California
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
Andre Ewell33 sig landed
HEAD58%19 of 50BODY39%13 of 22LEGS3%1 of 1
Irwin Rivera19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 32BODY5%1 of 1LEGS16%3 of 3
33 of 73
Sig.
strikes
19 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:48
Control
0:12
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Ewell firstMichael Bell10–9Dave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Andre Ewell35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 76BODY26%9 of 19LEGS6%2 of 2
Irwin Rivera21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 42BODY14%3 of 10LEGS43%9 of 9
35 of 97
Sig.
strikes
21 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ewell firstMichael Bell10–9Dave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Andre Ewell55 sig landed
HEAD64%35 of 100BODY25%14 of 23LEGS11%6 of 6
Irwin Rivera41 sig landed
HEAD61%25 of 60BODY24%10 of 13LEGS15%6 of 6
55 of 129
Sig.
strikes
41 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:06
Distance 53Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Ewell firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Andre EwellIrwin Rivera
Official totals — Andre Ewell first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
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 — 18 scored, Andre Ewell first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ant Walker Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com29–28
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Ewell · 54%29-28 Ewell · 39%29-28 Rivera · 7%

44 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.

Andre Ewell

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
0.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.25 / 15m
75%
ACCURACY
16%
0.10 / 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 (5.45 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.

Andre Ewell↑ +8.6pp
open 59.6%close 68.2%
Irwin Rivera↓ −8.6pp
open 40.4%close 31.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Andre Ewell opened at 59.6% and closed at 68.2% (+8.6pp), 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
Andre Ewell-160-24359.6%68.2%+8.6pp
Irwin Rivera14020340.4%31.8%−8.6pp
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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