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Events · UFC 53: Heavy Hitters · Karo Parisyan vs Matt Serra
From the tape · 4 Jun 2005

Karo Parisyan vs Matt Serra

UFC 53: Heavy Hitters · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Result

Karo Parisyan beat Matt Serra

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

KP
Red corner KaroParisyan“The Heat”North Hollywood, California
VSOn the tape
MS
Blue corner MattSerra“The Terra”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Long Island, New York
Welterweight3 rounds4 Jun 2005
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Serra.
24-11
Record
11-7
−9 yr22
Age
31
+4″5' 10"
Height
5' 6"
+4″72″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+37
+8%1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
North Hollywood, California
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 Serra
Karo Parisyan20 sig landed
HEAD100%20 of 47BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Serra22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 39BODY14%3 of 3LEGS23%5 of 6
20 of 49
Sig.
strikes
22 of 48
3 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:50
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 8
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
Karo Parisyan17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 44BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 1
Matt Serra3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
17 of 48
Sig.
strikes
3 of 13
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 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 action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Karo Parisyan19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 28BODY11%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Serra1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:17
Control
0:34
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 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 · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Karo Parisyan first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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 Parisyan · 70%29-27 Parisyan · 10%30-28 Parisyan · 10%29-26 Parisyan · 10%

10 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.

Karo Parisyan

5.27takedowns / 15 min
5.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.05 / 15m
8.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.25 / 15m
59%
ACCURACY
20%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Matt Serra

2.05takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Karo Parisyan vs Matt Serra.

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