This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
Events · UFC 85: Bedlam · Paul Taylor vs Jess Liaudin
From the tape · 7 Jun 2008

Paul Taylor vs Jess Liaudin

UFC 85: Bedlam · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Paul Taylor beat Jess Liaudin

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

PT
Red corner PaulTaylor“Relentless”Team Supreme · Walsall
VSOn the tape
JL
Blue corner JessLiaudin“The Joker”Pancrase London · Evry, Ile-de-France
Welterweight3 rounds7 Jun 2008
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Taylor.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Liaudin.
11-6-1
Record
20-11
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Team Supreme
Gym
Pancrase London
Walsall
From
Evry, Ile-de-France
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⚡ 1 KD Taylor1 sub attempt
Paul Taylor22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 26BODY23%5 of 5LEGS14%3 of 3
Jess Liaudin14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 28BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 34
Sig.
strikes
14 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:14
Control
3:06
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 12Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 7Ground 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
Paul Taylor7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 10BODY29%2 of 2LEGS29%2 of 3
Jess Liaudin10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 14BODY30%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 15
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:12
Control
2:53
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 4
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
Paul Taylor16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 28BODY31%5 of 5LEGS25%4 of 4
Jess Liaudin11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 19BODY18%2 of 3LEGS18%2 of 2
16 of 37
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 7
0:44
Control
2:57
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 8Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 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

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Paul Taylor first
JudgeTotal
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% 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, Paul Taylor first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com28–29
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Taylor · 50%29-28 Taylor · 50%

2 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.

Paul Taylor

0.27takedowns / 15 min
0.27 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.28 / 15m
1.08 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.19 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
53%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.60 / 15m

Jess Liaudin

3.28takedowns / 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.

Paul Taylor↓ −0.5pp
open 67.9%close 67.4%
Jess Liaudin↑ +0.5pp
open 32.1%close 32.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Paul Taylor opened at 67.9% and closed at 67.4% (−0.5pp), with Jess Liaudin 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
Paul Taylor-240-23567.9%67.4%−0.5pp
Jess Liaudin20019532.1%32.6%+0.5pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record