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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon · Josh Quinlan vs Trey Waters
From the tape · 29 Apr 2023

Josh Quinlan vs Trey Waters

UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Trey Waters beat Josh Quinlan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

JQ
Red corner JoshQuinlan“Bushido”Abe Brothers Jiu-Jitsu Las Vegas · Kauai, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TreyWaters“The Truth”Ludus MMA · Jacksonville, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds29 Apr 2023
6-3
Record
9-2
30
Age
−2 yr28
6' 0"
Height
+5″6' 5"
72″
Reach
+5″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Abe Brothers Jiu-Jitsu Las Vegas
Gym
Ludus MMA
Kauai, Hawaii
From
Jacksonville, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Josh Quinlan12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS58%7 of 7
Trey Waters29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 34BODY14%4 of 4LEGS7%2 of 2
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
29 of 40
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:54
Control
0:08
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Quinlan firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Josh Quinlan18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 29BODY22%4 of 5LEGS39%7 of 7
Trey Waters35 sig landed
HEAD89%31 of 73BODY3%1 of 3LEGS9%3 of 3
18 of 41
Sig.
strikes
35 of 79
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Quinlan firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Quinlan20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 52BODY5%1 of 2LEGS25%5 of 5
Trey Waters40 sig landed
HEAD98%39 of 82BODY2%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 59
Sig.
strikes
40 of 84
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:19
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Quinlan firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Josh QuinlanTrey Waters
Official totals — Josh Quinlan first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 10 scored, Josh Quinlan first · unofficial

Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Jake Noecker The Scrap News27–30
Alex Behunin MMA Mania27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Waters · 80%30-27 Quinlan · 7%29-27 Waters · 7%30-26 Waters · 7%

15 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.

Josh Quinlan

0.34takedowns / 15 min
0.34 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.40 / 15m
3.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
11%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Trey Waters

0.40takedowns / 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.

Josh Quinlan→ no move
open 66.8%close 66.7%
Trey Waters→ no move
open 33.2%close 33.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Josh Quinlan opened at 66.8% and closed at 66.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Josh Quinlan-225-22766.8%66.7%−0.0pp
Trey Waters19018933.2%33.3%+0.0pp
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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