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Events · UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · Seth Petruzelli vs Ricardo Romero
From the tape · 3 Jul 2010

Seth Petruzelli vs Ricardo Romero

UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ricardo Romero beat Seth Petruzelli

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:05
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

SP
Red corner SethPetruzelli“The Silverback”The Jungle MMA & Fitness · Fort Myers, Florida
VSOn the tape
RR
Blue corner RicardoRomeroAMA Fight Club · North Brunswick, New Jersey
Light Heavyweight3 rounds3 Jul 2010
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 53 points more takedown defence than Petruzelli.
  • Carries 9 points more striking defence than Romero.
14-8
Record
11-3
−2 yr30
Age
32
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
The Jungle MMA & Fitness
Gym
AMA Fight Club
Fort Myers, Florida
From
North Brunswick, New Jersey
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Petruzelli1 sub attempt
Seth Petruzelli27 sig landed
HEAD85%23 of 49BODY11%3 of 3LEGS4%1 of 2
Ricardo Romero9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 15BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 54
Sig.
strikes
9 of 16
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:56
Control
1:50
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 7Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 4
Round 23:05 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 3:05
Seth Petruzelli3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Ricardo Romero10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 9BODY50%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
10 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:15
Control
2:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 9

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

Ricardo Romero

Round
2
Clock
3:05
Method
Submission

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: Steve Mazzagatti.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Seth Petruzelli

0.46takedowns / 15 min
0.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.63 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
16.30 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
10%
2.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
3.30 / 15m

Ricardo Romero

1.63takedowns / 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.

Seth Petruzelli↓ −5.2pp
open 44.0%close 38.8%
Ricardo Romero↑ +5.2pp
open 56.0%close 61.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Seth Petruzelli opened at 44.0% and closed at 38.8% (−5.2pp), with Ricardo Romero 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
Seth Petruzelli11515044.0%38.8%−5.2pp
Ricardo Romero-145-17056.0%61.2%+5.2pp
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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