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History · 2009 · UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens · Kurt Pellegrino vs Rob Emerson
From the tape · 7 Feb 2009

Kurt Pellegrino vs Rob Emerson

UFC Fight Night: Lauzon vs Stephens · Tampa, Florida, USA
Result

Kurt Pellegrino beat Rob Emerson

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:14
LightweightMain cardReferee · Jorge Ortiz

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.

KP
Red corner KurtPellegrino“Batman”Pellegrino MMA · Point Pleasant, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
RE
Blue corner RobEmerson“The Saint”MMA Lab · Newport Beach, California
Lightweight3 rounds7 Feb 2009
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Emerson.
16-7
Record
18-12
29
Age
−2 yr27
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+47
UFC bouts
3
3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Pellegrino MMA
Gym
MMA Lab
Point Pleasant, New Jersey
From
Newport Beach, 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Kurt Pellegrino10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 29BODY30%3 of 5LEGS20%2 of 2
Rob Emerson16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 46BODY6%1 of 1LEGS31%5 of 6
10 of 36
Sig.
strikes
16 of 53
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:00
Control
0:58
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 3
Round 23:14 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:14
Kurt Pellegrino6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 20BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Rob Emerson5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 21BODY0%0 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
5 of 24
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:03
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0

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

Kurt Pellegrino

Round
2
Clock
3:14
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: Jorge Ortiz.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Kurt Pellegrino

2.90takedowns / 15 min
2.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.02 / 15m
5.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.88 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
52%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Rob Emerson

2.02takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Kurt Pellegrino↑ +4.1pp
open 62.8%close 66.9%
Rob Emerson↓ −4.1pp
open 37.2%close 33.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kurt Pellegrino opened at 62.8% and closed at 66.9% (+4.1pp), with Rob Emerson 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
Kurt Pellegrino-190-23062.8%66.9%+4.1pp
Rob Emerson15819037.2%33.1%−4.1pp
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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