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History · 2007 · UFC 79: Nemesis · Mark Bocek vs Doug Evans
From the tape · 29 Dec 2007

Mark Bocek vs Doug Evans

UFC 79: Nemesis · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Mark Bocek beat Doug Evans

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

MB
Red corner MarkBocekTristar Gym · Toronto, Ontario
VSOn the tape
DE
Blue corner DougEvansGladiators Training Academy · Redwood City, California
Lightweight3 rounds29 Dec 2007
The story going in
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Evans.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Bocek.
12-5
Record
13-10
−1 yr26
Age
27
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
Tristar Gym
Gym
Gladiators Training Academy
Toronto, Ontario
From
Redwood City, California
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
Mark Bocek7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 24BODY14%1 of 1LEGS29%2 of 2
Doug Evans13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 29BODY31%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
7 of 27
Sig.
strikes
13 of 34
2 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:38
Control
0:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 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
Mark Bocek11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 16BODY9%1 of 1LEGS27%3 of 3
Doug Evans6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 13BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:01
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 5Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 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 action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Mark Bocek8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 8BODY38%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Doug Evans3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 11
Sig.
strikes
3 of 16
3 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:58
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Mark Bocek first
JudgeTotal
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 3 scored, Mark Bocek first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bocek · 100%

3 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.

Mark Bocek

3.65takedowns / 15 min
3.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.19 / 15m
10.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.84 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
83%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Doug Evans

3.19takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mark Bocek↓ −1.1pp
open 53.2%close 52.2%
Doug Evans↑ +1.1pp
open 46.8%close 47.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mark Bocek opened at 53.2% and closed at 52.2% (−1.1pp), with Doug Evans 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
Mark Bocek-125-12053.2%52.2%−1.1pp
Doug Evans105-10046.8%47.8%+1.1pp
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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