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Events · UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar · Matt Brown vs Ryan Thomas
From the tape · 15 Nov 2008

Matt Brown vs Ryan Thomas

UFC 91: Couture vs Lesnar · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Brown beat Ryan Thomas

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:57
WelterweightMain 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 MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
VSOn the tape
RT
Blue corner RyanThomas“The Tank Engine”American Top Team · Danville, Illinois
Welterweight3 rounds15 Nov 2008
The story going in
  • Carries 63 points more takedown defence than Thomas.
  • Averages 3.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brown.
26-19
Record
20-8
27
Age
−3 yr24
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Immortal Fight Team
Gym
American Top Team
Xenia, Ohio
From
Danville, Illinois
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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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Matt Brown14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 10BODY50%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Ryan Thomas13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 8BODY31%4 of 4LEGS15%2 of 2
14 of 17
Sig.
strikes
13 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
4 of 6
0:44
Control
3:46
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 9
Round 20:57 of action1 sub attemptEnded 0:57
Matt Brown1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Ryan Thomas2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:01
Control
0:35
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Matt Brown

Round
2
Clock
0:57
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 15 min
1.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.59 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
16.94 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
33%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.20 / 15m

Ryan Thomas

5.59takedowns / 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.

Matt Brown→ no move
open 64.0%close 64.3%
Ryan Thomas→ no move
open 36.0%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Matt Brown opened at 64.0% and closed at 64.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Matt Brown-205-20064.0%64.3%+0.2pp
Ryan Thomas16517036.0%35.7%−0.2pp
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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