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Events · UFC 97: Redemption · Eliot Marshall vs Vinny Magalhaes
From the tape · 18 Apr 2009

Eliot Marshall vs Vinny Magalhaes

UFC 97: Redemption · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Eliot Marshall beat Vinny Magalhaes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
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.

EM
Red corner EliotMarshall“Fire”Grudge Training Center · Boulder, Colorado
VSOn the tape
VM
Blue corner VinnyMagalhaes“Pezao”Syndicate MMA · Rio de Janeiro
Light Heavyweight3 rounds18 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than Magalhaes.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Marshall.
10-4
Record
14-9
28
Age
−4 yr24
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
Grudge Training Center
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Boulder, Colorado
From
Rio de Janeiro
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Eliot Marshall10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 37BODY10%1 of 6LEGS30%3 of 3
Vinny Magalhaes6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 44BODY33%2 of 4LEGS0%0 of 3
10 of 46
Sig.
strikes
6 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstClaude Paquette10–9Benoit Roussel10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Eliot Marshall17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 43BODY18%3 of 4LEGS35%6 of 6
Vinny Magalhaes17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 40BODY35%6 of 8LEGS6%1 of 2
17 of 53
Sig.
strikes
17 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:41
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Marshall firstClaude Paquette10–9Benoit Roussel10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eliot Marshall17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 56BODY12%2 of 3LEGS35%6 of 6
Vinny Magalhaes11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 42BODY18%2 of 3LEGS18%2 of 2
17 of 65
Sig.
strikes
11 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:26
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Marshall firstClaude Paquette10–9Benoit Roussel10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Eliot MarshallVinny Magalhaes
Official totals — Eliot Marshall first
JudgeTotal
Claude Paquette30–27
Benoit Roussel30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 1 scored, Eliot Marshall first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Magalhães · 50%29-28 Marshall · 33%30-27 Magalhães · 17%

6 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.

Eliot Marshall

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.55 / 15m
1.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.52 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
44%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Vinny Magalhaes

1.55takedowns / 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.

Eliot Marshall↓ −8.1pp
open 51.0%close 42.9%
Vinny Magalhaes↑ +8.1pp
open 49.0%close 57.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eliot Marshall opened at 51.0% and closed at 42.9% (−8.1pp), with Vinny Magalhaes 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
Eliot Marshall-12012551.0%42.9%−8.1pp
Vinny Magalhaes-110-14549.0%57.1%+8.1pp
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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