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Events · UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben · Keith Jardine vs Brandon Vera
From the tape · 18 Oct 2008

Keith Jardine vs Brandon Vera

UFC 89: Bisping vs Leben · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Result

Keith Jardine beat Brandon Vera

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Kevin Mulhall

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.

KJ
Red corner KeithJardine“The Dean of Mean”Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
BV
Blue corner BrandonVera“The Truth”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds18 Oct 2008
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Is 20 points more accurate striking than Jardine.
17-11-2
Record
15-7
32
Age
−1 yr31
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+2″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+18
UFC bouts
7
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+40%4/580% of wins
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
San Diego, 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⚡ 1 KD Jardine⚡ 1 KD Vera
Keith Jardine20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 37BODY10%2 of 2LEGS10%2 of 2
Brandon Vera13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 13BODY8%1 of 2LEGS15%2 of 3
20 of 41
Sig.
strikes
13 of 18
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:03
Control
0:09
1
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 5
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
Keith Jardine12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 31BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%4 of 4
Brandon Vera18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 25BODY28%5 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
12 of 36
Sig.
strikes
18 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 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
Keith Jardine18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 46BODY17%3 of 3LEGS22%4 of 5
Brandon Vera17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 24BODY35%6 of 7LEGS29%5 of 5
18 of 54
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 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 · Kevin Mulhall
Official totals — Keith Jardine first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Tim Vannatta29–28
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% 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 — 4 scored, Keith Jardine first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Jardine · 78%30-27 Jardine · 11%30-27 Vera · 11%

9 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.

Keith Jardine

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
2.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.32 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
53%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Brandon Vera

0.70takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Keith Jardine↓ −3.3pp
open 39.8%close 36.5%
Brandon Vera↑ +3.3pp
open 60.2%close 63.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Keith Jardine opened at 39.8% and closed at 36.5% (−3.3pp), with Brandon Vera 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
Keith Jardine14016539.8%36.5%−3.3pp
Brandon Vera-170-19060.2%63.5%+3.3pp
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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