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Events · UFC 48: Payback · Evan Tanner vs Phil Baroni
From the tape · 19 Jun 2004

Evan Tanner vs Phil Baroni

UFC 48: Payback · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Evan Tanner beat Phil Baroni

Method
Decision - Unanimous
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.

ET
Red corner EvanTannerHard Knocks Kickboxing · Amarillo, Texas
VSOn the tape
PB
Blue corner PhilBaroni“The New York Bad Ass”American Kickboxing Academy · Long Island, New York
Middleweight3 rounds19 Jun 2004
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 16 points more striking defence than Baroni.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
32-8
Record
15-18
33
Age
−5 yr28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+39
UFC bouts
6
+19%6/786% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Hard Knocks Kickboxing
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Amarillo, Texas
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
Evan Tanner17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 15BODY41%7 of 7LEGS6%1 of 1
Phil Baroni6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 18BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 23
Sig.
strikes
6 of 21
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:07
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 11Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 0
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
Evan Tanner35 sig landed
HEAD77%27 of 37BODY20%7 of 9LEGS3%1 of 1
Phil Baroni4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 12BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 47
Sig.
strikes
4 of 13
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:06
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
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
Evan Tanner21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 30BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Phil Baroni13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 30BODY15%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
21 of 32
Sig.
strikes
13 of 33
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:51
Control
0:03
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — Evan Tanner first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Dalby Shirley29–28

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

30-27 Tanner · 44%29-28 Tanner · 44%30-26 Tanner · 11%

9 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.

Evan Tanner

2.55takedowns / 15 min
2.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.46 / 15m
5.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.11 / 15m
43%
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.

Evan Tanner vs Phil Baroni.

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