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History · 2007 · UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson · Karo Parisyan vs Joshua Burkman
From the tape · 26 May 2007

Karo Parisyan vs Joshua Burkman

UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Karo Parisyan beat Joshua Burkman

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-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.

KP
Red corner KaroParisyan“The Heat”North Hollywood, California
VSOn the tape
JB
Blue corner JoshuaBurkman“The People's Warrior”The Pit Elevated Fight Team · Salt Lake City, Utah
Welterweight3 rounds26 May 2007
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Burkman.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
24-11
Record
28-16
−3 yr24
Age
27
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+38
UFC bouts
5
2/633% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/450% of wins
North Hollywood, California
From
Salt Lake City, Utah
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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
Karo Parisyan20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 36BODY15%3 of 3LEGS20%4 of 4
Joshua Burkman5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 21BODY0%0 of 1LEGS60%3 of 3
20 of 43
Sig.
strikes
5 of 25
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:46
Control
1:03
Distance 11Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 1
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 Parisyan24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 50BODY12%3 of 4LEGS21%5 of 5
Joshua Burkman8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 36BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
24 of 59
Sig.
strikes
8 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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
Karo Parisyan10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 23BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Joshua Burkman3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 27
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:35
Control
1:33
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
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.

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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Karo Parisyan first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% 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.

Media cards — 2 scored, Karo Parisyan first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Parisyan · 67%29-28 Parisyan · 17%

6 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
2.53 / 15m
8.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.03 / 15m
59%
ACCURACY
36%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Joshua Burkman

2.53takedowns / 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.

Karo Parisyan vs Joshua Burkman.

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