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Events · UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 · Matthew Riddle vs Sean Pierson
From the tape · 11 Dec 2010

Matthew Riddle vs Sean Pierson

UFC 124: St-Pierre vs Koscheck 2 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

Sean Pierson beat Matthew Riddle

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

MR
Red corner MatthewRiddle“Deep Waters”
VSOn the tape
SP
Blue corner SeanPierson“The Punisher”Tap Star · Toronto, Ontario
Welterweight3 rounds11 Dec 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Riddle.
  • Averages 3.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pierson.
8-3
Record
14-6
−10 yr24
Age
34
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
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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⚡ 1 KD Pierson1 sub attempt
Matthew Riddle5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 49BODY0%0 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
Sean Pierson48 sig landed
HEAD58%28 of 57BODY25%12 of 13LEGS17%8 of 11
5 of 53
Sig.
strikes
48 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:31
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 14Ground 11
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Matthew Riddle11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 70BODY0%0 of 1LEGS9%1 of 1
Sean Pierson25 sig landed
HEAD96%24 of 57BODY0%0 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
11 of 72
Sig.
strikes
25 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 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 actionEnded 5:00
Matthew Riddle19 sig landed
HEAD89%17 of 129BODY5%1 of 3LEGS5%1 of 1
Sean Pierson39 sig landed
HEAD87%34 of 101BODY8%3 of 8LEGS5%2 of 2
19 of 133
Sig.
strikes
39 of 111
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:42
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Matthew Riddle first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide27–30
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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.

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Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Matthew Riddle

3.51takedowns / 15 min
3.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
7.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.17 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
18%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sean Pierson

0.39takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Matthew Riddle vs Sean Pierson.

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