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History · 2009 · UFC 97: Redemption · Ed Herman vs David Loiseau
From the tape · 18 Apr 2009

Ed Herman vs David Loiseau

UFC 97: Redemption · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Ed Herman beat David Loiseau

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Philippe Chartier

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.

EH
Red corner EdHerman“Short Fuse”American Top Team Portland · Portland, Oregon
VSOn the tape
DL
Blue corner DavidLoiseau“The Crow”Tristar Gym · Montreal, Quebec
Middleweight3 rounds18 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Every one of Herman’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Loiseau’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
27-16
Record
23-11
−1 yr28
Age
29
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
7
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
4/4100% of wins
American Top Team Portland
Gym
Tristar Gym
Portland, Oregon
From
Montreal, Quebec
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
Ed Herman32 sig landed
HEAD50%16 of 24BODY50%16 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
David Loiseau2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 1BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 40
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:45
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 30
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 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
Ed Herman16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 5BODY69%11 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
David Loiseau0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

16 of 18
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:13
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 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
Ed Herman23 sig landed
HEAD17%4 of 7BODY83%19 of 19LEGS0%0 landed
David Loiseau4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 26
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:34
Distance 0Clinch 12Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Philippe Chartier
Official totals — Ed Herman first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–26
Sylvain Leblanc30–27
Claude Paquette30–27

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.

Media cards — 2 scored, Ed Herman first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–26
Sherdog.com30–26

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Herman · 100%

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.

Ed Herman

1.96takedowns / 15 min
1.96 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.43 / 15m
4.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.02 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
42%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

David Loiseau

0.43takedowns / 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.

Ed Herman→ no move
open 45.9%close 45.7%
David Loiseau→ no move
open 54.1%close 54.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Ed Herman opened at 45.9% and closed at 45.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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
Ed Herman10511045.9%45.7%−0.2pp
David Loiseau-135-13054.1%54.3%+0.2pp
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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