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Events · UFC 121: Lesnar vs Velasquez · Sam Stout vs Paul Taylor
From the tape · 23 Oct 2010

Sam Stout vs Paul Taylor

UFC 121: Lesnar vs Velasquez · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Sam Stout beat Paul Taylor

Method
Decision - Split
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.

SS
Red corner SamStout“Hands of Stone”London, Ontario
VSOn the tape
PT
Blue corner PaulTaylor“Relentless”Team Supreme · Walsall
Lightweight3 rounds23 Oct 2010
The story going in
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Taylor.
  • Is 19 points more accurate striking than Stout.
20-12-1
Record
11-6-1
−4 yr26
Age
30
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+29
UFC bouts
7
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+33%1/333% of wins
London, Ontario
From
Walsall
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
Sam Stout38 sig landed
HEAD50%19 of 74BODY13%5 of 6LEGS37%14 of 19
Paul Taylor50 sig landed
HEAD52%26 of 59BODY20%10 of 11LEGS28%14 of 14
38 of 99
Sig.
strikes
50 of 84
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 50Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sam Stout30 sig landed
HEAD63%19 of 71BODY17%5 of 5LEGS20%6 of 7
Paul Taylor38 sig landed
HEAD66%25 of 73BODY13%5 of 7LEGS21%8 of 9
30 of 83
Sig.
strikes
38 of 89
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:19
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sam Stout39 sig landed
HEAD51%20 of 90BODY15%6 of 8LEGS33%13 of 15
Paul Taylor52 sig landed
HEAD71%37 of 96BODY19%10 of 17LEGS10%5 of 10
39 of 113
Sig.
strikes
52 of 123
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 48Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstCecil Peoples10–9

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.

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Sam StoutPaul Taylor
Official totals — Sam Stout first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–27

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 — 3 scored, Sam Stout first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Taylor · 80%

5 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.

Sam Stout

0.63takedowns / 15 min
0.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.27 / 15m
1.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.08 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
25%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Paul Taylor

0.27takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Sam Stout↑ +11.2pp
open 53.1%close 64.3%
Paul Taylor↓ −11.2pp
open 46.9%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sam Stout opened at 53.1% and closed at 64.3% (+11.2pp), with Paul Taylor 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
Sam Stout-130-20053.1%64.3%+11.2pp
Paul Taylor10017046.9%35.7%−11.2pp
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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