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Events · UFC 105: Couture vs Vera · Matt Brown vs James Wilks
From the tape · 14 Nov 2009

Matt Brown vs James Wilks

UFC 105: Couture vs Vera · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Result

Matt Brown beat James Wilks

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:27
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

MB
Red corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
VSOn the tape
JW
Blue corner JamesWilks“Lightning”Lightning MMA · Leicestershire, East Midlands
Welterweight3 rounds14 Nov 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Brown’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
26-19
Record
7-4
−3 yr28
Age
31
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+34
UFC bouts
1
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Immortal Fight Team
Gym
Lightning MMA
Xenia, Ohio
From
Leicestershire, East Midlands
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 action1 sub attempt
Matt Brown8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 11BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
James Wilks7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 13BODY14%1 of 2LEGS43%3 of 4
8 of 14
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:17
Control
3:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Brown2 sub attempts
Matt Brown22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 33BODY23%5 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
James Wilks5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
22 of 39
Sig.
strikes
5 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
1:36
Control
2:12
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 32:27 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 2:27
Matt Brown15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 20BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
James Wilks7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 3
15 of 22
Sig.
strikes
7 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
0:42
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 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

Matt Brown

Round
3
Clock
2:27
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: Leon Roberts.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 15 min
1.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.27 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.77 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
22%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
3.80 / 15m

James Wilks

1.27takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Matt Brown↑ +2.6pp
open 57.8%close 60.4%
James Wilks↓ −2.6pp
open 42.2%close 39.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Brown opened at 57.8% and closed at 60.4% (+2.6pp), with James Wilks 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
Matt Brown-155-16557.8%60.4%+2.6pp
James Wilks12514542.2%39.6%−2.6pp
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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