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Events · UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer · Alan Belcher vs Ed Herman
From the tape · 17 Sep 2008

Alan Belcher vs Ed Herman

UFC Fight Night: Diaz vs Neer · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Result

Alan Belcher beat Ed Herman

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

AB
Red corner AlanBelcher“The Talent”Biloxi, Mississippi
VSOn the tape
EH
Blue corner EdHerman“Short Fuse”American Top Team Portland · Portland, Oregon
Middleweight3 rounds17 Sep 2008
The story going in
  • Every one of Belcher’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Herman’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Herman.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Belcher.
18-8
Record
27-16
−3 yr24
Age
27
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
6
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Biloxi, Mississippi
From
Portland, Oregon
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 action2 sub attempts
Alan Belcher22 sig landed
HEAD27%6 of 10BODY18%4 of 6LEGS55%12 of 12
Ed Herman12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 28BODY33%4 of 7LEGS8%1 of 2
22 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 6
1:33
Control
1:34
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 10Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 7Ground 4
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
Alan Belcher20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 26BODY20%4 of 6LEGS15%3 of 3
Ed Herman8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 45BODY25%2 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
20 of 35
Sig.
strikes
8 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:19
Control
1:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 1
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
Alan Belcher12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%2 of 3
Ed Herman23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 37BODY13%3 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
12 of 27
Sig.
strikes
23 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:31
Control
2:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 5
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

Decision - Split

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Alan Belcher first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Jeff Sinnett28–29
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% 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.

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.

Alan Belcher

0.44takedowns / 15 min
0.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.96 / 15m
1.69 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.17 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
47%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ed Herman

1.96takedowns / 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.

Alan Belcher↓ −4.0pp
open 32.6%close 28.5%
Ed Herman↑ +4.0pp
open 67.4%close 71.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alan Belcher opened at 32.6% and closed at 28.5% (−4.0pp), with Ed Herman 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
Alan Belcher19024032.6%28.5%−4.0pp
Ed Herman-250-28067.4%71.5%+4.0pp
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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