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History · 2009 · UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 · Jake O'Brien vs Christian Wellisch
From the tape · 31 Jan 2009

Jake O'Brien vs Christian Wellisch

UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jake O'Brien beat Christian Wellisch

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

JO
Red corner JakeO'Brien“Irish”Integrated Fighting Academy · Indianapolis, Indiana
VSOn the tape
CW
Blue corner ChristianWellisch“The Hungarian Nightmare”American Kickboxing Academy · Budapest
Light Heavyweight3 rounds31 Jan 2009
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.8 more significant strikes a minute than O'Brien.
  • Averages 5.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Wellisch.
15-4
Record
8-5
−9 yr24
Age
33
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+15
UFC bouts
4
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Integrated Fighting Academy
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Indianapolis, Indiana
From
Budapest
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 O'Brien
Jake O'Brien12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 28BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Christian Wellisch9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 33BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 3
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 37
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:38
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
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
Jake O'Brien6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Christian Wellisch20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 50BODY0%0 landedLEGS45%9 of 12
6 of 31
Sig.
strikes
20 of 62
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 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
Jake O'Brien7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Christian Wellisch17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 75BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 2
7 of 25
Sig.
strikes
17 of 80
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 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 · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Jake O'Brien first
JudgeTotal
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide29–28
Nelson Hamilton2.2 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.

Media cards — 3 scored, Jake O'Brien first · unofficial

Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Wellisch · 50%29-28 O'Brien · 50%

2 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.

Jake O'Brien

6.39takedowns / 15 min
6.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.22 / 15m
11.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.90 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
42%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Christian Wellisch

1.22takedowns / 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.

Jake O'Brien→ no move
open 69.3%close 69.8%
Christian Wellisch→ no move
open 30.7%close 30.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Jake O'Brien opened at 69.3% and closed at 69.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp 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
Jake O'Brien-270-26069.3%69.8%+0.5pp
Christian Wellisch21022030.7%30.2%−0.5pp
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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