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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale · James McSweeney vs Darrill Schoonover
From the tape · 5 Dec 2009

James McSweeney vs Darrill Schoonover

The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

James McSweeney beat Darrill Schoonover

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:20
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

JM
Red corner JamesMcSweeney“The Hammer”McSweeney Martial Arts · London, Greater London
VSOn the tape
DS
Blue corner DarrillSchoonover“The Boss”Red Spider MMA · El Paso, Texas
Heavyweight3 rounds5 Dec 2009
15-15
Record
14-8
29
Age
−5 yr24
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
McSweeney Martial Arts
Gym
Red Spider MMA
London, Greater London
From
El Paso, Texas
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 action2 sub attempts
James McSweeney20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 27BODY25%5 of 6LEGS10%2 of 2
Darrill Schoonover13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 21BODY15%2 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
20 of 35
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:28
Control
1:51
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 3
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
James McSweeney17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 25BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
Darrill Schoonover1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 27
Sig.
strikes
1 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
4:16
Control
0:15
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 33:20 of actionEnded 3:20
James McSweeney21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 23BODY38%8 of 8LEGS5%1 of 2
Darrill Schoonover2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 of 4LEGS0%0 of 3
21 of 33
Sig.
strikes
2 of 12
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:32
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 4
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

James McSweeney

Round
3
Clock
3:20
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: Josh Rosenthal.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

James McSweeney

0.52takedowns / 15 min
0.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
33%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Darrill Schoonover

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

James McSweeney↓ −2.2pp
open 50.0%close 47.8%
Darrill Schoonover↑ +2.2pp
open 50.0%close 52.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

James McSweeney opened at 50.0% and closed at 47.8% (−2.2pp), with Darrill Schoonover 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
James McSweeney-115-10050.0%47.8%−2.2pp
Darrill Schoonover-115-12050.0%52.2%+2.2pp
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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