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History · 2009 · UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Eliot Marshall vs Jason Brilz
From the tape · 19 Sep 2009

Eliot Marshall vs Jason Brilz

UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Eliot Marshall beat Jason Brilz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Don Turnage

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
JB
Blue corner JasonBrilz“Hitman”Elite Performance · Omaha, Nebraska
Light Heavyweight3 rounds19 Sep 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 54 points more takedown defence than Brilz.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Marshall.
10-4
Record
22-6-1
−5 yr29
Age
34
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+6″77″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Grudge Training Center
Gym
Elite Performance
Boulder, Colorado
From
Omaha, Nebraska
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
Eliot Marshall11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 38BODY9%1 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
Jason Brilz6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 26BODY17%1 of 1LEGS33%2 of 3
11 of 41
Sig.
strikes
6 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:49
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstKent Basinger10–9Chris Lee9–10Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Eliot Marshall8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
Jason Brilz10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS30%3 of 3
8 of 34
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:17
Control
1:07
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstKent Basinger10–9Chris Lee9–10Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eliot Marshall10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 40BODY20%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Jason Brilz11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 43BODY9%1 of 1LEGS27%3 of 3
10 of 42
Sig.
strikes
11 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:06
Control
1:45
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Marshall firstKent Basinger10–9Chris Lee9–10Cecil Peoples10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Don Turnage
Eliot MarshallJason Brilz
Official totals — Eliot Marshall first
JudgeTotal
Kent Basinger30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% 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 — 3 scored, Eliot Marshall first · unofficial

Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Brilz · 50%30-27 Brilz · 50%

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.

Eliot Marshall

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.37 / 15m
1.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.48 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
25%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Jason Brilz

2.37takedowns / 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↓ −3.9pp
open 45.9%close 42.0%
Jason Brilz↑ +3.9pp
open 54.1%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eliot Marshall opened at 45.9% and closed at 42.0% (−3.9pp), with Jason Brilz 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 Marshall10513045.9%42.0%−3.9pp
Jason Brilz-135-15054.1%58.0%+3.9pp
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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