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History · 2009 · UFC 97: Redemption · Luiz Cane vs Steve Cantwell
From the tape · 18 Apr 2009

Luiz Cane vs Steve Cantwell

UFC 97: Redemption · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Luiz Cane beat Steve Cantwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

LC
Red corner LuizCane“Banha”Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu · Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
VSOn the tape
SC
Blue corner SteveCantwell“The Robot”One Kick's Gym · Pahrump, Nevada
Light Heavyweight3 rounds18 Apr 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Cantwell.
17-7
Record
7-6
27
Age
−5 yr22
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Demian Maia Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
One Kick's Gym
Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
From
Pahrump, Nevada
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
Luiz Cane31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 74BODY19%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Steve Cantwell25 sig landed
HEAD32%8 of 38BODY32%8 of 8LEGS36%9 of 11
31 of 80
Sig.
strikes
25 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:02
Distance 27Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 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
Luiz Cane20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 52BODY25%5 of 7LEGS10%2 of 2
Steve Cantwell30 sig landed
HEAD70%21 of 57BODY13%4 of 4LEGS17%5 of 5
20 of 61
Sig.
strikes
30 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 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
Luiz Cane36 sig landed
HEAD78%28 of 72BODY22%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Steve Cantwell14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 56BODY29%4 of 6LEGS14%2 of 4
36 of 82
Sig.
strikes
14 of 66
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 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 · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Luiz Cane first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Sylvain Leblanc30–27
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% 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.

Media cards — 5 scored, Luiz Cane first · unofficial

TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Cane · 50%30-27 Cane · 25%29-28 Cantwell · 25%

4 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.

Luiz Cane

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.17 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
30%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Steve Cantwell

0.65takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Luiz Cane vs Steve Cantwell.

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