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History · 2004 · UFC 50: The War Of '04 · Evan Tanner vs Robbie Lawler
From the tape · 22 Oct 2004

Evan Tanner vs Robbie Lawler

UFC 50: The War Of '04 · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Result

Evan Tanner beat Robbie Lawler

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
2:22
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
RL
Blue corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
Middleweight3 rounds22 Oct 2004
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 40 points more takedown defence than Tanner.
32-8
Record
30-16
33
Age
−11 yr22
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+410
UFC bouts
6
+25%6/875% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Hard Knocks Kickboxing
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Amarillo, Texas
From
San Diego, California
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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

1 round of tape

Round 12:22 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:22
Evan Tanner6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 12BODY17%1 of 1LEGS50%3 of 4
Robbie Lawler3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 13BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 17
Sig.
strikes
3 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:34
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 1

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Evan Tanner

Round
1
Clock
2:22
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

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
0.65 / 15m
5.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
64%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 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.

Evan Tanner vs Robbie Lawler.

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