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Events · UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch · Ross Pearson vs Spencer Fisher
From the tape · 26 Feb 2011

Ross Pearson vs Spencer Fisher

UFC 127: Penn vs Fitch · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Ross Pearson beat Spencer Fisher

Method
Decision - Unanimous
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.

RP
Red corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
SF
Blue corner SpencerFisher“The King”Davenport, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds26 Feb 2011
The story going in
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Fisher.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Pearson.
20-16
Record
24-9
−8 yr26
Age
34
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+1″69″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+1014
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+22%5/956% of wins
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
From
Davenport, Iowa
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
Ross Pearson15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 50BODY7%1 of 3LEGS13%2 of 4
Spencer Fisher19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 33BODY5%1 of 2LEGS53%10 of 10
15 of 57
Sig.
strikes
19 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
0:17
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pearson firstChris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ross Pearson26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 55BODY19%5 of 13LEGS19%5 of 6
Spencer Fisher13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 54BODY15%2 of 4LEGS15%2 of 3
26 of 74
Sig.
strikes
13 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:01
Distance 23Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstChris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 53BODY22%4 of 7LEGS22%4 of 7
Spencer Fisher6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 41BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
18 of 67
Sig.
strikes
6 of 45
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:14
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstChris Lee10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Ross PearsonSpencer Fisher
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 6 scored, Ross Pearson first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pearson · 67%30-27 Pearson · 33%

3 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.

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.23 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
30%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Spencer Fisher

0.67takedowns / 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.

Ross Pearson↑ +12.8pp
open 50.0%close 62.8%
Spencer Fisher↓ −12.8pp
open 50.0%close 37.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 50.0% and closed at 62.8% (+12.8pp), with Spencer Fisher 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
Ross Pearson-120-18550.0%62.8%+12.8pp
Spencer Fisher-12016050.0%37.2%−12.8pp
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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