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History · 2008 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale · Tom Lawlor vs Kyle Kingsbury
From the tape · 13 Dec 2008

Tom Lawlor vs Kyle Kingsbury

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tom Lawlor beat Kyle Kingsbury

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

TL
Red corner TomLawlor“Filthy”The Jungle MMA & Fitness · Fall River, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
KK
Blue corner KyleKingsbury“Kingsbu”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds13 Dec 2008
10-6
Record
11-6
−1 yr25
Age
26
6' 0"
Height
+4″6' 4"
74″
Reach
+5″79″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
The Jungle MMA & Fitness
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Fall River, Massachusetts
From
San Jose, 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
Tom Lawlor8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kyle Kingsbury1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
8 of 15
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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
Tom Lawlor6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kyle Kingsbury3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
3 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:13
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 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
Tom Lawlor0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

Kyle Kingsbury6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 7BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
0 of 0
Sig.
strikes
6 of 10
3 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:24
Control
2:06
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 2
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 - Unanimous

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Tom Lawlor first
JudgeTotal
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% 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.

Tom Lawlor

2.46takedowns / 15 min
2.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.64 / 15m
7.69 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.44 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
41%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kyle Kingsbury

2.64takedowns / 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.

Tom Lawlor→ no move
open 48.0%close 47.8%
Kyle Kingsbury→ no move
open 52.0%close 52.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Tom Lawlor opened at 48.0% and closed at 47.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp 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
Tom Lawlor-105-10048.0%47.8%−0.1pp
Kyle Kingsbury-125-12052.0%52.2%+0.1pp
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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