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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jones vs Sola · Luke Riley vs Michael Aswell Jr.
Red corner LukeRileyNext Generation MMA Liverpool · Liverpool, Merseyside
VSSettled
Blue corner Michael AswellJr.
Featherweight Bout3 rounds21 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Is 15 points more accurate striking than Jr..
  • Lands 2.2 more significant strikes a minute than Riley.
14-0
Record
11-5
26
Age
−1 yr25
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Luke Riley
59.2% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 50%
Vs the market−8.2pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Luke Riley
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Luke Riley at 59.2% and Luke Riley won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Luke Riley33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 42BODY30%10 of 11LEGS3%1 of 3
Michael Aswell Jr.20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 52BODY15%3 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
33 of 56
Sig.
strikes
20 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:05
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riley firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Luke Riley35 sig landed
HEAD63%22 of 55BODY29%10 of 11LEGS9%3 of 4
Michael Aswell Jr.30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 69BODY27%8 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 70
Sig.
strikes
30 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:29
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riley firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luke Riley32 sig landed
HEAD66%21 of 37BODY34%11 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Michael Aswell Jr.11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 37BODY18%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 51
Sig.
strikes
11 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:15
Distance 26Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riley firstAnders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Luke RileyMichael Aswell Jr.
Official totals — Luke Riley first
JudgeTotal
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide30–27

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 — 11 scored, Luke Riley first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Riley · 56%29-28 Riley · 36%29-28 Aswell · 8%

62 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.

Luke Riley

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
0.32 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Michael Aswell Jr.

0.32takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Luke Riley↑ +7.3pp
open 58.0%close 65.3%
Michael Aswell Jr.↓ −7.3pp
open 42.0%close 34.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Luke Riley opened at 58.0% and closed at 65.3% (+7.3pp), with Michael Aswell Jr. 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.

Our published call had Luke Riley at 59.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 65.3% — our number sat 6.1pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Luke Riley-150-21658.0%65.3%+7.3pp
Michael Aswell Jr.13017542.0%34.7%−7.3pp
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 2026-08-02. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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