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Events · UFC 43: Meltdown · Vernon White vs Ian Freeman
From the tape · 6 Jun 2003

Vernon White vs Ian Freeman

UFC 43: Meltdown · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Larry Landless

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.

VW
Red corner VernonWhite“Tiger”Lion's Den · Palo Alto, California
VSOn the tape
IF
Blue corner IanFreeman“The Machine”Machine MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Heavyweight3 rounds6 Jun 2003
The story going in
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Freeman.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than White.
26-33-2
Record
20-7-1
−5 yr31
Age
36
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Lion's Den
Gym
Machine MMA
Palo Alto, California
From
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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.

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
Vernon White11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 9BODY36%4 of 5LEGS18%2 of 3
Ian Freeman6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 15BODY0%0 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:44
Control
2:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
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
Vernon White20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 25BODY10%2 of 2LEGS25%5 of 5
Ian Freeman4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
20 of 32
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:28
Control
1:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Vernon White14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 17BODY36%5 of 10LEGS36%5 of 6
Ian Freeman8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
14 of 33
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:46
Control
2:35
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 13Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 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

Decision - Split

Referee · Larry Landless
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 127–30
Judge 229–28
Judge 329–29

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The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Vernon White

0.88takedowns / 15 min
0.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.44 / 15m
3.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.60 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
40%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Ian Freeman

1.44takedowns / 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

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.

Vernon White vs Ian Freeman.

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