BOSTON – In a fight between a pair of opponents who got their UFC shots courtesy of Dana White’s Contender Series, Julio Arce just had more in the tank and took advantage more often than Dan Ige.

Arce (14-2 MMA, 1-0 UFC) took a unanimous decision from Ige (8-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) with a pair of 30-27 scores and a 29-28. When the fight was over, Ige’s face was wearing the effects of the times Arce was able to get through with his fists.

The featherweight bout was part of the preliminary card of today’s UFC 220 event at TD Garden in Boston. It aired on FS1 following additional prelims on UFC Fight Pass and ahead of a main card on pay-per-view.

A scramble 45 seconds in led to a near takedown, but Ige couldn’t get Arce to the canvas. An Arce kick nearly two minutes in didn’t work in his favor when Ige used it to press him to the cage. But Arce forced his way out and back to the center of the cage. With 90 seconds left in the round, Arce caught Ige flush with a punch and wobbled him. He briefly got him to the canvas and landed a hanmmer fist, but couldn’t get the job done. Back on the feet, though, he threatened with a minute left – but again, Ige survived and got to the second round.

Midway through the second, the two mixed it up briefly before Ige dropped low for a takedown that Arce easily sprawled out of. Ige’s face looked way more worse for the wear than Arce’s, and Arce’s energy level seemed to be just a step ahead, too. But with about a minute left, Ige caught Arce with a punch that briefly backed him up. But when he moved in to take advantage, he was forced into a clinch.

Arce put a good combination together 30 seconds into the third and had Ige scrambling to stay upright. They scrambled several more times through the third, but Ige never was able to put anything together to put Arce in any danger – though he did his best to stay in there swinging.

Arce won for the sixth straight time. Ige had a six-fight winning streak snapped with the loss.

Up-to-the-minute UFC 220 results include:

• Julio Arce def. Dan Ige via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
• Enrique Barzola def. Matt Bessette via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28)
• Islam Makhachev def. Gleison Tibau via knockout (punch) – Round 1, 0:57

For complete coverage of UFC 220, check out the UFC Events section of the site.

(MMAjunkie’s Ken Hathaway contributed to this report on site in Boston.)