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Events · UFC 109: Relentless · Rob Emerson vs Phillipe Nover
From the tape · 6 Feb 2010

Rob Emerson vs Phillipe Nover

UFC 109: Relentless · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rob Emerson beat Phillipe Nover

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RE
Red corner RobEmerson“The Saint”MMA Lab · Newport Beach, California
VSOn the tape
PN
Blue corner PhillipeNover“The Filipino Assassin”Team Renzo Gracie · Brooklyn, New York
Lightweight3 rounds6 Feb 2010
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Nover.
18-12
Record
11-8-1
28
Age
−2 yr26
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+35
UFC bouts
2
MMA Lab
Gym
Team Renzo Gracie
Newport Beach, California
From
Brooklyn, New York
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
Rob Emerson4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
Phillipe Nover4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 6BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 2
4 of 6
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:50
Control
0:40
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 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
Rob Emerson17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 19BODY35%6 of 6LEGS24%4 of 5
Phillipe Nover5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 8BODY20%1 of 4LEGS40%2 of 2
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:23
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 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 action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rob Emerson5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 10BODY0%0 of 1LEGS80%4 of 6
Phillipe Nover10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 17BODY50%5 of 5LEGS10%1 of 2
5 of 17
Sig.
strikes
10 of 24
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:59
Control
0:37
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Rob Emerson first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% 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 — 2 scored, Rob Emerson first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nover · 57%29-28 Emerson · 29%30-27 Nover · 14%

7 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.

Rob Emerson

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.99 / 15m
3.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.54 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
28%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Phillipe Nover

0.99takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Rob Emerson↓ −2.0pp
open 53.1%close 51.1%
Phillipe Nover↑ +2.0pp
open 46.9%close 48.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Emerson opened at 53.1% and closed at 51.1% (−2.0pp), with Phillipe Nover 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
Rob Emerson-130-11553.1%51.1%−2.0pp
Phillipe Nover100-10546.9%48.9%+2.0pp
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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