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History · 2010 · UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Amir Sadollah vs Brad Blackburn
From the tape · 11 Jan 2010

Amir Sadollah vs Brad Blackburn

UFC Fight Night: Maynard vs Diaz · Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Result

Amir Sadollah beat Brad Blackburn

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

AS
Red corner AmirSadollahSyndicate MMA · Richmond, Virginia
VSOn the tape
BB
Blue corner BradBlackburn“Bad Brad”Victory Athletics · Seattle, Washington
Welterweight3 rounds11 Jan 2010
The story going in
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Blackburn.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Sadollah.
6-5
Record
18-13-1
−3 yr29
Age
32
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Syndicate MMA
Gym
Victory Athletics
Richmond, Virginia
From
Seattle, Washington
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
Amir Sadollah35 sig landed
HEAD49%17 of 48BODY31%11 of 14LEGS20%7 of 9
Brad Blackburn20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 59BODY20%4 of 7LEGS35%7 of 8
35 of 71
Sig.
strikes
20 of 74
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:26
Distance 30Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 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
Amir Sadollah30 sig landed
HEAD27%8 of 32BODY43%13 of 17LEGS30%9 of 9
Brad Blackburn17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 54BODY18%3 of 9LEGS24%4 of 5
30 of 58
Sig.
strikes
17 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
2:02
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
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
Amir Sadollah22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 26BODY23%5 of 5LEGS9%2 of 2
Brad Blackburn0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 8 thrown

22 of 33
Sig.
strikes
0 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:32
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Amir Sadollah first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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.

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.

Amir Sadollah

0.57takedowns / 15 min
0.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.93 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.86 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
50%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Brad Blackburn

0.93takedowns / 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.

Amir Sadollah↓ −2.3pp
open 59.4%close 57.1%
Brad Blackburn↑ +2.3pp
open 40.6%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Amir Sadollah opened at 59.4% and closed at 57.1% (−2.3pp), with Brad Blackburn 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
Amir Sadollah-165-14559.4%57.1%−2.3pp
Brad Blackburn13512540.6%42.9%+2.3pp
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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