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History · 2022 · UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal · Edson Barboza vs Bryce Mitchell
From the tape · 5 Mar 2022

Edson Barboza vs Bryce Mitchell

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

Bryce Mitchell beat Edson Barboza

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

Red corner EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BryceMitchell“Thug Nasty”Barata MMA · Sherwood, Arkansas
Featherweight3 rounds5 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 26 UFC bouts deep — 21 more than Mitchell.
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Barboza.
24-15
Record
19-4
36
Age
−9 yr27
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+2126
UFC bouts
5
+30%8/1650% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Barata MMA
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
From
Sherwood, Arkansas
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 Mitchell
Edson Barboza11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 5BODY36%4 of 8LEGS45%5 of 6
Bryce Mitchell14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 14BODY21%3 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
14 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:48
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Edson Barboza3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY33%1 of 1LEGS67%2 of 2
Bryce Mitchell7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
7 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary8–10Douglas Crosby8–10Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Edson Barboza2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 11BODY50%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Bryce Mitchell13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 19BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 14
Sig.
strikes
13 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:02
Control
3:59
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Barboza firstDerek Cleary8–10Douglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Edson BarbozaBryce Mitchell
Official totals — Edson Barboza first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide25–30
Douglas Crosby26–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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, Edson Barboza first · unofficial

Combat Press.com25–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com25–30
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com25–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com25–30
Phil Murphy ESPN25–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com25–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com25–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com25–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com26–30
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland26–30
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com26–30
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv26–30
Scott Fontana New York Post27–30
Dan Urban Couchside Judges27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Mitchell · 59%30-26 Mitchell · 16%30-24 Mitchell · 16%30-27 Mitchell · 4%30-27 Barboza · 2%

133 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.

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 15 min
0.43 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.24 / 15m
0.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.00 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
36%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Bryce Mitchell

3.24takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Edson Barboza↓ −5.2pp
open 44.7%close 39.6%
Bryce Mitchell↑ +5.2pp
open 55.3%close 60.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Edson Barboza opened at 44.7% and closed at 39.6% (−5.2pp), with Bryce Mitchell 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
Edson Barboza11514144.7%39.6%−5.2pp
Bryce Mitchell-135-17355.3%60.4%+5.2pp
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 2026-07-18. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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