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Events · UFC 105: Couture vs Vera · Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera
From the tape · 14 Nov 2009

Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera

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

Randy Couture beat Brandon Vera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

RC
Red corner RandyCouture“The Natural”Xtreme Couture · Corvallis, Oregon
VSOn the tape
BV
Blue corner BrandonVera“The Truth”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds14 Nov 2009
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
19-11
Record
15-7
46
Age
−14 yr32
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1020
UFC bouts
10
9/1369% of wins
Finishes
+2%5/771% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Alliance MMA
Corvallis, Oregon
From
San Diego, California
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
Randy Couture10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 4BODY10%1 of 1LEGS70%7 of 7
Brandon Vera3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS67%2 of 2
10 of 12
Sig.
strikes
3 of 11
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 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⚡ 1 KD Vera
Randy Couture7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 13BODY29%2 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
Brandon Vera13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 11BODY46%6 of 6LEGS31%4 of 6
7 of 17
Sig.
strikes
13 of 23
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:16
Control
1:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 2
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
Randy Couture22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 36BODY27%6 of 6LEGS9%2 of 2
Brandon Vera11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 12BODY36%4 of 4LEGS9%1 of 1
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
11 of 17
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:20
Control
1:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 17Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 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 · Marc Goddard
Official totals — Randy Couture first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28

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, Randy Couture first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Fight Metric.com29–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Loretta Hunt Sherdog.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Couture · 46%29-28 Vera · 40%30-27 Vera · 6%30-28 Vera · 4%

52 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.

Randy Couture

2.78takedowns / 15 min
2.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.70 / 15m
6.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.32 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
53%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Brandon Vera

0.70takedowns / 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.

Randy Couture↓ −19.2pp
open 59.4%close 40.2%
Brandon Vera↑ +19.2pp
open 40.6%close 59.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Randy Couture opened at 59.4% and closed at 40.2% (−19.2pp), with Brandon Vera 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
Randy Couture-16514559.4%40.2%−19.2pp
Brandon Vera135-15540.6%59.8%+19.2pp
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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