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Events · Kape vs Horiguchi · Gaston Bolanos vs Michael Aswell Jr.
Red corner GastonBolanos“The Dreamkiller”CSA · Dublin, California
VSSettled
Blue corner Michael AswellJr.
Featherweight3 rounds21 Jun 2026
9-5
Record
11-5
33
Age
−8 yr25
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+14
UFC bouts
3
0/20% 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
Michael Aswell
71.1% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 41%
Vs the market−6.7pp
Market had our pick at78%
The fight
Gaston Bolanos
LOSS
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Michael Aswell at 71.1%Gaston Bolanos won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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
Gaston Bolanos29 sig landed
HEAD52%15 of 48BODY31%9 of 15LEGS17%5 of 11
Michael Aswell Jr.47 sig landed
HEAD79%37 of 88BODY19%9 of 11LEGS2%1 of 1
29 of 74
Sig.
strikes
47 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 46Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bolanos firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Gaston Bolanos36 sig landed
HEAD36%13 of 42BODY42%15 of 21LEGS22%8 of 8
Michael Aswell Jr.30 sig landed
HEAD80%24 of 72BODY20%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 71
Sig.
strikes
30 of 80
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:22
Control
0:01
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bolanos firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gaston Bolanos22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 30BODY45%10 of 13LEGS23%5 of 5
Michael Aswell Jr.28 sig landed
HEAD89%25 of 66BODY11%3 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
22 of 48
Sig.
strikes
28 of 72
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:05
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Bolanos firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Gaston BolanosMichael Aswell Jr.
Official totals — Gaston Bolanos first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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 — 9 scored, Gaston Bolanos first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Unattributed29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
CombatPress.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bolanos · 73%29-28 Aswell · 23%30-27 Aswell · 4%

26 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.

Gaston Bolanos

0.66takedowns / 15 min
0.66 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.32 / 15m
100%
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 (5.32 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.

Gaston Bolanos↑ +0.8pp
open 22.5%close 23.3%
Michael Aswell Jr.↓ −0.8pp
open 77.5%close 76.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gaston Bolanos opened at 22.5% and closed at 23.3% (+0.8pp), 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 Michael Aswell at 71.1%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 76.7% — our number sat 5.6pp 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
Gaston Bolanos33031222.5%23.3%+0.8pp
Michael Aswell Jr.-400-39577.5%76.7%−0.8pp
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% · dated 2026-06-20 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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