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History · 2022 · UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal · Colby Covington vs Jorge Masvidal
From the tape · 5 Mar 2022

Colby Covington vs Jorge Masvidal

UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Colby Covington beat Jorge Masvidal

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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
JM
Blue corner JorgeMasvidal“Gamebred”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
Welterweight5 rounds5 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Masvidal.
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
17-5
Record
35-17
−3 yr34
Age
37
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+620
5/1145% of wins
Finishes
+13%7/1258% of wins
MMA Masters
Gym
American Top Team
Springfield, Oregon
From
Miami, Florida
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
Colby Covington7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 16BODY29%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 8BODY0%0 of 3LEGS67%4 of 6
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:32
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Colby Covington20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 53BODY15%3 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
Jorge Masvidal31 sig landed
HEAD58%18 of 42BODY16%5 of 8LEGS26%8 of 13
20 of 58
Sig.
strikes
31 of 63
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attempt
Colby Covington21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 37BODY14%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 7BODY0%0 of 2LEGS38%3 of 3
21 of 40
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Colby Covington33 sig landed
HEAD97%32 of 65BODY3%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 35BODY24%5 of 6LEGS19%4 of 5
33 of 66
Sig.
strikes
21 of 46
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Colby Covington13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jorge Masvidal1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Covington firstDerek Cleary10–8Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro 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 · Herb Dean
Colby CovingtonJorge Masvidal
Official totals — Colby Covington first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide50–44
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide49–46

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 — 20 scored, Colby Covington first · unofficial

Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com50–44
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–44
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland50–44
Dan Urban Couchside Judges50–44
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com50–44
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com49–44
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–45
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv49–45
Combat Press.com49–45
Phil Murphy ESPN49–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com49–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-44 Covington · 24%50-43 Covington · 21%50-45 Covington · 11%49-45 Covington · 10%49-46 Covington · 9%

710 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.

Colby Covington

3.64takedowns / 15 min
3.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.38 / 15m
8.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.34 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
59%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jorge Masvidal

1.38takedowns / 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↑ +10.2pp
open 63.0%close 73.2%
Jorge Masvidal↓ −10.2pp
open 37.0%close 26.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colby Covington opened at 63.0% and closed at 73.2% (+10.2pp), with Jorge Masvidal 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-190-32763.0%73.2%+10.2pp
Jorge Masvidal16025737.0%26.8%−10.2pp
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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