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History · 2006 · The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale · Matt Serra vs Chris Lytle
From the tape · 11 Nov 2006

Matt Serra vs Chris Lytle

The Ultimate Fighter: The Comeback Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Serra beat Chris Lytle

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Ultimate Fighter 4 Welterweight Tournament TitleMainReferee · 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.

MS
Red corner MattSerra“The Terra”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Long Island, New York
VSOn the tape
CL
Blue corner ChrisLytle“Lights Out”Integrated Fighting Academy · Indianapolis, Indiana
Ultimate Fighter 4 Welterweight Tournament Title3 rounds11 Nov 2006
The story going in
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lytle.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than Serra.
11-7
Record
31-18-5
32
Age
32
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
68″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+28
UFC bouts
6
1/425% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Integrated Fighting Academy
Long Island, New York
From
Indianapolis, Indiana
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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
Matt Serra8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 7BODY38%3 of 4LEGS25%2 of 2
Chris Lytle12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 5BODY42%5 of 5LEGS42%5 of 5
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
12 of 15
0 of 7
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:28
Control
1:24
Distance 0Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 5
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
Matt Serra7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 6BODY29%2 of 4LEGS57%4 of 4
Chris Lytle17 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 10BODY88%15 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
17 of 26
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:41
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 16Ground 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
Matt Serra5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 8BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Chris Lytle13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 7BODY77%10 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
13 of 17
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:05
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 12Ground 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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Matt Serra first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide27–30

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Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Matt Serra

2.05takedowns / 15 min
2.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
10.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.27 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
55%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.40 / 15m

Chris Lytle

0.70takedowns / 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.

Matt Serra vs Chris Lytle.

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