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Events · UFC 78: Validation · Frankie Edgar vs Spencer Fisher
From the tape · 17 Nov 2007

Frankie Edgar vs Spencer Fisher

UFC 78: Validation · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Frankie Edgar beat Spencer Fisher

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

FE
Red corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
SF
Blue corner SpencerFisher“The King”Davenport, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds17 Nov 2007
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Fisher.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Edgar.
23-11-1
Record
24-9
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
68″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+57
1/250% of wins
Finishes
4/580% of wins
Toms River, New Jersey
From
Davenport, Iowa
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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
Frankie Edgar21 sig landed
HEAD100%21 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Spencer Fisher3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 8BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 35
Sig.
strikes
3 of 10
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:17
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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
Frankie Edgar11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Spencer Fisher1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:30
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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 actionEnded 5:00
Frankie Edgar10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 16BODY30%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Spencer Fisher2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:26
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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 · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Frankie Edgar first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Romulo Bittencourt30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–26

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, Frankie Edgar first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Edgar · 88%30-26 Edgar · 12%

8 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.

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.23 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
30%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Spencer Fisher

0.67takedowns / 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

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Frankie Edgar↑ +2.4pp
open 52.9%close 55.3%
Spencer Fisher↓ −2.4pp
open 47.1%close 44.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frankie Edgar opened at 52.9% and closed at 55.3% (+2.4pp), with Spencer Fisher moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Frankie Edgar-135-13552.9%55.3%+2.4pp
Spencer Fisher-10511547.1%44.7%−2.4pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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