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History · 2009 · UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun · Jorge Rivera vs Rob Kimmons
From the tape · 24 Oct 2009

Jorge Rivera vs Rob Kimmons

UFC 104: Machida vs Shogun · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Jorge Rivera beat Rob Kimmons

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:53
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

JR
Red corner JorgeRivera“El Conquistador”Rivera Athletic Center · Milford, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
RK
Blue corner RobKimmons“The Rosedale Reaper”K2L Grindhouse · Liberty, Missouri
Middleweight3 rounds24 Oct 2009
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Rivera.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Kimmons.
20-9
Record
25-9
37
Age
−9 yr28
+3″6' 1"
Height
5' 10"
73″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+710
UFC bouts
3
2/540% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Rivera Athletic Center
Gym
K2L Grindhouse
Milford, Massachusetts
From
Liberty, Missouri
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
Jorge Rivera21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 37BODY29%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Rob Kimmons13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 27BODY38%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:00
Control
2:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 9Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action
Jorge Rivera24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 48BODY29%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Rob Kimmons8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 12BODY38%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 55
Sig.
strikes
8 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:39
Control
0:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 8Ground 0
Round 31:53 of action⚡ 1 KD RiveraEnded 1:53
Jorge Rivera21 sig landed
HEAD100%21 of 37BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Rob Kimmons2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%1 of 1
21 of 37
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:40
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Jorge Rivera

Round
3
Clock
1:53
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Jorge Rivera

0.84takedowns / 15 min
0.84 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.08 / 15m
1.68 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.52 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
46%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.40 / 15m

Rob Kimmons

2.08takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Jorge Rivera↓ −3.7pp
open 41.4%close 37.7%
Rob Kimmons↑ +3.7pp
open 58.6%close 62.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jorge Rivera opened at 41.4% and closed at 37.7% (−3.7pp), with Rob Kimmons 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
Jorge Rivera13015541.4%37.7%−3.7pp
Rob Kimmons-160-18558.6%62.3%+3.7pp
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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