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History · 2005 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin Finale · Rashad Evans vs Brad Imes
From the tape · 5 Nov 2005

Rashad Evans vs Brad Imes

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Franklin Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rashad Evans beat Brad Imes

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Ultimate Fighter 2 Heavyweight Tournament TitleCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RE
Red corner RashadEvans“Suga”Kill Cliff FC · Niagara Falls, New York
VSOn the tape
BI
Blue corner BradImes“Hillbilly Heartthrob”Sacramento BJJ · Sacramento, California
Ultimate Fighter 2 Heavyweight Tournament Title3 rounds5 Nov 2005
19-8-1
Record
13-7
−2 yr26
Age
28
6' 0"
Height
+7″6' 7"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Sacramento BJJ
Niagara Falls, New York
From
Sacramento, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Evans
Rashad Evans16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 29BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Brad Imes9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 34BODY33%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 31
Sig.
strikes
9 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:10
Control
0:44
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 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
Rashad Evans14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Brad Imes13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 66BODY8%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
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.
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Evans1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rashad Evans18 sig landed
HEAD100%18 of 34BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Brad Imes20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 49BODY20%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
20 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:54
Control
0:51
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 7Ground 3
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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Rashad Evans first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide29–28
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

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.

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.

Rashad Evans

2.98takedowns / 15 min
2.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.72 / 15m
6.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.42 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
71%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Brad Imes

1.72takedowns / 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.

Rashad Evans vs Brad Imes.

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