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The Clinch

UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington

16 DEC 2023 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Welterweight / 5 rounds scheduled Title

Leon Edwards vs Colby Covington

Leon Edwards, photograph by James English Leon Edwards “Rocky”

13-2-1 entering this bout

Age 32 · 6′2″188 cm

Won

Colby Covington, photograph by Alexandra Shea Colby Covington “Chaos”

12-3-0 entering this bout

Age 35 · 5′11″180.3 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
13/31
R1
10/28
18/27
R2
13/36
12/23
R3
7/32
11/22
R4
13/26
3/5
R5
1/4

Decision (Unanimous) Round 5 · 5:00 Referee Herb Dean

The cards

Judge Leon Edwards Colby Covington
Derek Cleary 49 46
Sal D'amato 49 46
Chris Lee 49 46

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Leon Edwards Enters 9-2-1 against GRAPPLING
Colby Covington Enters 4-1-0 against HYBRID

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Leon Edwards    Colby Covington

Bout totals

57
Sig. strikes
44
65
Total strikes
109
21
To the head
20
14
To the body
7
22
To the legs
17
56
At distance
44
0
In the clinch
0
1
On the ground
0
2
Takedowns
2
0
Knockdowns
0
2
Sub. attempts
0
1:27
Control time
5:04

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Leon Edwards 13/31 13/31 5/20 3/5 5/6 13/31 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
Colby Covington 10/28 10/28 5/20 2/2 3/6 10/28 0/0 0/0 0/1 0 0:00
R2 Leon Edwards 18/27 18/27 7/13 4/7 7/7 18/27 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
Colby Covington 13/36 13/36 4/22 2/4 7/10 13/36 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Leon Edwards 12/23 13/24 3/12 2/4 7/7 12/23 0/0 0/0 1/2 0 0:18
Colby Covington 7/32 13/38 1/21 2/4 4/7 7/31 0/1 0/0 1/3 0 0:34
R4 Leon Edwards 11/22 11/22 3/12 5/5 3/5 11/22 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:11
Colby Covington 13/26 19/32 10/22 0/1 3/3 13/26 0/0 0/0 0/5 0 1:27
R5 Leon Edwards 3/5 10/12 3/5 0/0 0/0 2/4 0/0 1/1 1/1 0 0:58
Colby Covington 1/4 54/60 0/1 1/1 0/2 1/4 0/0 0/0 1/1 0 3:03

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight Yes UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight Yes UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Derek Cleary 46 - 49. Sal D'amato 46 - 49. Chris Lee 46 - 49. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Derek Cleary 46 - 49. Sal D'amato 46 - 49. Chris Lee 46 - 49. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Welterweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Welterweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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