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Events · UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama · James McSweeney vs Fabio Maldonado
From the tape · 16 Oct 2010

James McSweeney vs Fabio Maldonado

UFC 120: Bisping vs Akiyama · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Fabio Maldonado beat James McSweeney

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:48
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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
FM
Blue corner FabioMaldonado“Caipira de Aco”Sorocaba, Sao Paulo
Light Heavyweight3 rounds16 Oct 2010
The story going in
  • Carries 39 points more takedown defence than Maldonado.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than McSweeney.
15-15
Record
23-11
−1 yr29
Age
30
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
+2″77″
Reach
75″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
London, Greater London
From
Sorocaba, Sao Paulo
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
James McSweeney37 sig landed
HEAD51%19 of 46BODY24%9 of 12LEGS24%9 of 9
Fabio Maldonado12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 22BODY67%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 67
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:09
Control
0:21
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Maldonado2 sub attempts
James McSweeney11 sig landed
HEAD9%1 of 11BODY55%6 of 10LEGS36%4 of 4
Fabio Maldonado50 sig landed
HEAD52%26 of 40BODY48%24 of 25LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
50 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
3:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 19
Round 30:48 of actionEnded 0:48
James McSweeney1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Fabio Maldonado27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 21BODY26%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 7
Sig.
strikes
27 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 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

Fabio Maldonado

Round
3
Clock
0:48
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: Marc Goddard.

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
0.44 / 15m
1.58 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.77 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
57%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Fabio Maldonado

0.44takedowns / 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.

James McSweeney→ no move
open 32.1%close 32.1%
Fabio Maldonado→ no move
open 67.9%close 67.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. James McSweeney opened at 32.1% and closed at 32.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp shift across the whole build-up. 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 McSweeney20020032.1%32.1%−0.0pp
Fabio Maldonado-240-24067.9%67.9%−0.0pp
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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