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Events · UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones · Mirko Filipovic vs Brendan Schaub
From the tape · 19 Mar 2011

Mirko Filipovic vs Brendan Schaub

UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Brendan Schaub beat Mirko Filipovic

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:44
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.

MF
Red corner MirkoFilipovic“Cro Cop”Cro Cop Top Team · Zagreb
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BrendanSchaub“Big Brown”Reign MMA · Aurora, Colorado
Heavyweight3 rounds19 Mar 2011
The story going in
  • Every one of Filipovic’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Schaub.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
35-11-2
Record
10-5
36
Age
−8 yr28
6' 2"
Height
+2″6' 4"
73″
Reach
+5″78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
+33%4/4100% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Cro Cop Top Team
Gym
Reign MMA
Zagreb
From
Aurora, Colorado
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
Mirko Filipovic5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 6BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Brendan Schaub21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 34BODY14%3 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
21 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:39
Control
2:44
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 10Ground 10
Round 25:00 of action
Mirko Filipovic12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 9BODY50%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Brendan Schaub15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 14BODY73%11 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 16
Sig.
strikes
15 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:06
Control
2:24
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 10Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 11Ground 4
Round 33:44 of action⚡ 1 KD SchaubEnded 3:44
Mirko Filipovic4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%1 of 2
Brendan Schaub4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 12BODY50%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 14
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:06
Control
1:47
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1

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

Brendan Schaub

Round
3
Clock
3:44
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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Mirko Filipovic

0.19takedowns / 15 min
0.19 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.32 / 15m
0.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.04 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
46%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Brendan Schaub

2.32takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Mirko Filipovic↓ −23.6pp
open 53.8%close 30.2%
Brendan Schaub↑ +23.6pp
open 46.2%close 69.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mirko Filipovic opened at 53.8% and closed at 30.2% (−23.6pp), with Brendan Schaub 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
Mirko Filipovic-14022553.8%30.2%−23.6pp
Brendan Schaub100-24546.2%69.8%+23.6pp
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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