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Events · UFC 98: Evans vs Machida · Frankie Edgar vs Sean Sherk
From the tape · 23 May 2009

Frankie Edgar vs Sean Sherk

UFC 98: Evans vs Machida · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Frankie Edgar beat Sean Sherk

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

FE
Red corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
SS
Blue corner SeanSherk“The Muscle Shark”The Academy MN · Minneapolis, Minnesota
Lightweight3 rounds23 May 2009
The story going in
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Sherk.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Edgar.
23-11-1
Record
36-4-1
−8 yr27
Age
35
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+510
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+4%2/729% of wins
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
The Academy MN
Toms River, New Jersey
From
Minneapolis, Minnesota
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 — 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
Frankie Edgar27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 43BODY33%9 of 11LEGS19%5 of 7
Sean Sherk12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 58BODY17%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
27 of 61
Sig.
strikes
12 of 61
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Frankie Edgar33 sig landed
HEAD70%23 of 59BODY24%8 of 8LEGS6%2 of 5
Sean Sherk6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 69BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 72
Sig.
strikes
6 of 70
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Frankie Edgar14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 50BODY36%5 of 6LEGS7%1 of 2
Sean Sherk9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 70BODY11%1 of 2LEGS11%1 of 1
14 of 58
Sig.
strikes
9 of 73
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:20
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstJeff Collins10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Frankie EdgarSean Sherk
Official totals — Frankie Edgar first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 5 scored, Frankie Edgar first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Edgar · 67%30-28 Edgar · 17%30-26 Edgar · 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.

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.09 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.89 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
46%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sean Sherk

4.09takedowns / 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.

Frankie Edgar↓ −6.6pp
open 32.1%close 25.5%
Sean Sherk↑ +6.6pp
open 67.9%close 74.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frankie Edgar opened at 32.1% and closed at 25.5% (−6.6pp), with Sean Sherk 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
Frankie Edgar19528532.1%25.5%−6.6pp
Sean Sherk-255-31567.9%74.5%+6.6pp
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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