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History · 2009 · UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann · Ryan Bader vs Carmelo Marrero
From the tape · 1 Apr 2009

Ryan Bader vs Carmelo Marrero

UFC Fight Night: Condit vs Kampmann · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Ryan Bader beat Carmelo Marrero

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

RB
Red corner RyanBader“Darth”Power MMA Team · Tempe, Arizona
VSOn the tape
CM
Blue corner CarmeloMarrero“The Fury”American Top Team · Douglasville, Pennsylvania
Light Heavyweight3 rounds1 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Carries 44 points more takedown defence than Marrero.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
23-5
Record
16-6
−3 yr25
Age
28
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+1″74″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Power MMA Team
Gym
American Top Team
Tempe, Arizona
From
Douglasville, Pennsylvania
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 action1 sub attempt
Ryan Bader5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
Carmelo Marrero3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
5 of 15
Sig.
strikes
3 of 16
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:05
Control
1:01
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 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
Ryan Bader10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS30%3 of 3
Carmelo Marrero3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:59
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 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 action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Ryan Bader9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 18BODY11%1 of 3LEGS22%2 of 2
Carmelo Marrero3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 16BODY0%0 of 2LEGS67%2 of 2
9 of 23
Sig.
strikes
3 of 20
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:00
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Ryan Bader first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27

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.

Ryan Bader

3.37takedowns / 15 min
3.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.21 / 15m
7.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.92 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
36%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Carmelo Marrero

3.21takedowns / 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.

Ryan Bader→ no move
open 77.6%close 77.3%
Carmelo Marrero→ no move
open 22.4%close 22.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Ryan Bader opened at 77.6% and closed at 77.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp 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
Ryan Bader-435-40077.6%77.3%−0.3pp
Carmelo Marrero32532522.4%22.7%+0.3pp
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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