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Events · UFC 34: High Voltage · Matt Lindland vs Phil Baroni
From the tape · 2 Nov 2001

Matt Lindland vs Phil Baroni

UFC 34: High Voltage · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Lindland beat Phil Baroni

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

ML
Red corner MattLindland“The Law”Team Quest · Eagle Creek, Oregon
VSOn the tape
PB
Blue corner PhilBaroni“The New York Bad Ass”American Kickboxing Academy · Long Island, New York
Middleweight3 rounds2 Nov 2001
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Baroni.
22-9
Record
15-18
31
Age
−6 yr25
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Team Quest
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Eagle Creek, Oregon
From
Long Island, New York
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Baroni2 sub attempts
Matt Lindland26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 21BODY12%3 of 4LEGS23%6 of 7
Phil Baroni15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 15BODY33%5 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
26 of 32
Sig.
strikes
15 of 21
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:16
Control
1:12
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 1Clinch 22Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 7Ground 6
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Matt Lindland26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 30BODY15%4 of 5LEGS8%2 of 2
Phil Baroni7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 13BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 37
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:35
Control
0:51
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Matt Lindland19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 18BODY11%2 of 2LEGS26%5 of 5
Phil Baroni10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
19 of 25
Sig.
strikes
10 of 19
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:34
Control
0:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Majority Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Matt Lindland first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lindland · 75%28-27 Baroni · 12%

8 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.

Matt Lindland

3.01takedowns / 15 min
3.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.46 / 15m
6.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.11 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
47%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Phil Baroni

1.46takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Matt Lindland vs Phil Baroni.

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