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History · 2010 · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Rodney Wallace vs Phil Davis
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Rodney Wallace vs Phil Davis

UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Oakland, California, USA
Result

Phil Davis beat Rodney Wallace

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain 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.

RW
Red corner RodneyWallace“Shonuff the Master”Team R.O.C. Charlotte · Bamberg, South Carolina
VSOn the tape
PD
Blue corner PhilDavis“Mr. Wonderful”Alliance MMA · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Light Heavyweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Davis.
  • Carries 44 points more takedown defence than Wallace.
26-15-1
Record
17-4
28
Age
−3 yr25
5' 9"
Height
+5″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+7″79″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
Team R.O.C. Charlotte
Gym
Alliance MMA
Bamberg, South Carolina
From
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rodney Wallace1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis29 sig landed
HEAD76%22 of 27BODY24%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
29 of 34
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:59
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 25
Judges · this round · Wallace firstUnknown Judge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rodney Wallace0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

Phil Davis18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 26BODY39%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
18 of 34
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
4:13
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 15
Judges · this round · Wallace firstUnknown Judge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rodney Wallace1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 15BODY42%5 of 8LEGS0%0 of 1
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:11
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 5
Judges · this round · Wallace firstUnknown Judge9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Rodney WallacePhil Davis
Official totals — Rodney Wallace first
JudgeTotal
Unknown Judge27–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 2 scored, Rodney Wallace first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Davis · 50%30-25 Davis · 33%30-26 Davis · 17%

6 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.

Rodney Wallace

6.00takedowns / 15 min
6.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.99 / 15m
11.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.87 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
38%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Phil Davis

2.99takedowns / 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 (5.96 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.

Rodney Wallace↓ −3.7pp
open 17.4%close 13.7%
Phil Davis↑ +3.7pp
open 82.6%close 86.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rodney Wallace opened at 17.4% and closed at 13.7% (−3.7pp), with Phil Davis 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
Rodney Wallace44560017.4%13.7%−3.7pp
Phil Davis-660-90082.6%86.3%+3.7pp
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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