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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Aaron Phillips vs Gaston Bolanos
From the tape · 15 Apr 2023

Aaron Phillips vs Gaston Bolanos

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Allen · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Result

Gaston Bolanos beat Aaron Phillips

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Nick Berens

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.

AP
Red corner AaronPhillips“The Dragon”Headkicks MMA · Lafayette, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GastonBolanos“The Dreamkiller”CSA · Dublin, California
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Apr 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Phillips.
12-5
Record
9-5
33
Age
−3 yr30
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
+2″71″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Headkicks MMA
Gym
CSA
Lafayette, Louisiana
From
Dublin, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Aaron Phillips10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 12BODY70%7 of 11LEGS10%1 of 3
Gaston Bolanos22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 30BODY9%2 of 6LEGS50%11 of 16
10 of 26
Sig.
strikes
22 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Phillips firstTravis Buesking9–10Henry Gueary9–10Ross Swanberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Aaron Phillips5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 6BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Gaston Bolanos25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 28BODY12%3 of 6LEGS44%11 of 12
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
25 of 46
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:05
Control
0:40
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 13
Judges · this round · Phillips firstTravis Buesking10–9Henry Gueary9–10Ross Swanberg9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Phillips2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Gaston Bolanos16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 24BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 3
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:56
Control
0:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Phillips firstTravis Buesking9–10Henry Gueary9–10Ross Swanberg9–10

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 · Nick Berens
Aaron PhillipsGaston Bolanos
Official totals — Aaron Phillips first
JudgeTotal
Travis Buesking28–29
Henry Gueary27–30
Ross Swanberg27–30

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 — 15 scored, Aaron Phillips first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Jake Noecker The Scrap News28–29
Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bolanos · 46%29-28 Phillips · 26%30-27 Bolanos · 26%30-29 Phillips · 2%

46 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.

Aaron Phillips

0.86takedowns / 15 min
0.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.66 / 15m
1.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.66 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
100%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Gaston Bolanos

0.66takedowns / 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.

Aaron Phillips↓ −2.3pp
open 40.4%close 38.1%
Gaston Bolanos↑ +2.3pp
open 59.6%close 61.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Phillips opened at 40.4% and closed at 38.1% (−2.3pp), with Gaston Bolanos 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
Aaron Phillips14015240.4%38.1%−2.3pp
Gaston Bolanos-160-18259.6%61.9%+2.3pp
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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