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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley · Colby Covington vs Tyron Woodley
From the tape · 19 Sep 2020

Colby Covington vs Tyron Woodley

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

Colby Covington beat Tyron Woodley

Method
KO/TKO
Round
5 of 5
Clock
1:19
WelterweightMainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

Red corner ColbyCovington“Chaos”MMA Masters · Springfield, Oregon
VSOn the tape
TW
Blue corner TyronWoodley“The Chosen One”American Top Team Evolution · St. Louis, Missouri
Welterweight5 rounds19 Sep 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Woodley.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
17-5
Record
19-7-1
−6 yr32
Age
38
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+214
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+27%6/967% of wins
MMA Masters
Gym
American Top Team Evolution
Springfield, Oregon
From
St. Louis, Missouri
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Colby Covington13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 25BODY23%3 of 5LEGS15%2 of 2
Tyron Woodley5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 15BODY60%3 of 6LEGS20%1 of 1
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
5 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:18
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Colby Covington20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 32BODY30%6 of 8LEGS15%3 of 3
Tyron Woodley13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 18BODY31%4 of 6LEGS15%2 of 2
20 of 43
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:19
Control
0:11
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Colby Covington23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 19BODY43%10 of 10LEGS9%2 of 2
Tyron Woodley12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 20BODY50%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:23
Control
0:03
Distance 15Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 45:00 of action
Colby Covington18 sig landed
HEAD94%17 of 26BODY6%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Tyron Woodley3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY67%2 of 2LEGS33%1 of 1
18 of 28
Sig.
strikes
3 of 4
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:25
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 51:19 of actionEnded 1:19
Colby Covington4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY50%2 of 3LEGS50%2 of 2
Tyron Woodley1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
4 of 9
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Colby Covington

Round
5
Clock
1:19
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Colby Covington

3.64takedowns / 15 min
3.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.06 / 15m
8.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.65 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
40%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Tyron Woodley

1.06takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Colby Covington↑ +5.6pp
open 68.9%close 74.4%
Tyron Woodley↓ −5.6pp
open 31.1%close 25.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colby Covington opened at 68.9% and closed at 74.4% (+5.6pp), with Tyron Woodley 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
Colby Covington-250-34068.9%74.4%+5.6pp
Tyron Woodley21027731.1%25.6%−5.6pp
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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