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History · 2008 · UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin · Patrick Cote vs Ricardo Almeida
From the tape · 5 Jul 2008

Patrick Cote vs Ricardo Almeida

UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Patrick Cote beat Ricardo Almeida

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

PC
Red corner PatrickCote“The Predator”BTT Canada · Quebec City, Quebec
VSOn the tape
RA
Blue corner RicardoAlmeida“Big Dog”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Bordentown, New Jersey
Middleweight3 rounds5 Jul 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cote.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
23-11
Record
13-5
−3 yr28
Age
31
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+37
UFC bouts
4
2/367% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
BTT Canada
Gym
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Quebec City, Quebec
From
Bordentown, New Jersey
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 action1 sub attempt
Patrick Cote2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ricardo Almeida16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 13BODY56%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
16 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:25
Control
3:36
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 15
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Patrick Cote11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 26BODY27%3 of 3LEGS18%2 of 2
Ricardo Almeida3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:00
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 2
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.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Patrick Cote11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 22BODY0%0 of 1LEGS55%6 of 6
Ricardo Almeida7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 32BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
7 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:21
Control
0:37
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Patrick Cote first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% 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 — 6 scored, Patrick Cote first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cote · 100%

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.

Patrick Cote

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.74 / 15m
3.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.84 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
38%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Ricardo Almeida

3.74takedowns / 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

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.

Patrick Cote↓ −10.7pp
open 57.8%close 47.0%
Ricardo Almeida↑ +10.7pp
open 42.2%close 53.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Patrick Cote opened at 57.8% and closed at 47.0% (−10.7pp), with Ricardo Almeida 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
Patrick Cote-15510857.8%47.0%−10.7pp
Ricardo Almeida125-11842.2%53.0%+10.7pp
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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