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Events · UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine · Jason Brilz vs Tim Boetsch
From the tape · 7 Mar 2009

Jason Brilz vs Tim Boetsch

UFC 96: Jackson vs Jardine · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Jason Brilz beat Tim Boetsch

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

JB
Red corner JasonBrilz“Hitman”Elite Performance · Omaha, Nebraska
VSOn the tape
TB
Blue corner TimBoetsch“The Barbarian”Team Irish · Lincolnville, Maine
Light Heavyweight3 rounds7 Mar 2009
The story going in
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Boetsch.
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Brilz.
22-6-1
Record
21-13
33
Age
−5 yr28
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
71″
Reach
+3″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Elite Performance
Gym
Team Irish
Omaha, Nebraska
From
Lincolnville, Maine
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
Jason Brilz6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 44BODY17%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 2
Tim Boetsch21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 42BODY14%3 of 3LEGS10%2 of 2
6 of 49
Sig.
strikes
21 of 47
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 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 action1 sub attempt
Jason Brilz18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 17BODY22%4 of 4LEGS44%8 of 9
Tim Boetsch1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
18 of 30
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:08
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 10Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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
Jason Brilz10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 19BODY20%2 of 2LEGS30%3 of 3
Tim Boetsch5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:12
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Jason Brilz first
JudgeTotal
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Greg Franklin29–28

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, Jason Brilz first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Brilz · 33%29-28 Brilz · 33%30-27 Boetsch · 33%

3 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.

Jason Brilz

2.37takedowns / 15 min
2.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.45 / 15m
9.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.26 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
34%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Tim Boetsch

1.45takedowns / 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.

Jason Brilz↓ −4.3pp
open 43.1%close 38.8%
Tim Boetsch↑ +4.3pp
open 56.9%close 61.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jason Brilz opened at 43.1% and closed at 38.8% (−4.3pp), with Tim Boetsch 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
Jason Brilz12015043.1%38.8%−4.3pp
Tim Boetsch-150-17056.9%61.2%+4.3pp
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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