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Events · UFC 128: Shogun vs Jones · Ricardo Almeida vs Mike Pyle
From the tape · 19 Mar 2011

Ricardo Almeida vs Mike Pyle

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

Mike Pyle beat Ricardo Almeida

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

RA
Red corner RicardoAlmeida“Big Dog”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Bordentown, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
MP
Blue corner MikePyle“Quicksand”Syndicate MMA · Las Vegas, Nevada
Welterweight3 rounds19 Mar 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Pyle.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
13-5
Record
27-14-1
−1 yr34
Age
35
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+510
UFC bouts
5
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Bordentown, New Jersey
From
Las Vegas, Nevada
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 action1 sub attempt
Ricardo Almeida14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 12BODY36%5 of 6LEGS29%4 of 6
Mike Pyle11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 13BODY45%5 of 5LEGS27%3 of 3
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
11 of 21
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:17
Control
0:22
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstDouglas Crosby9–10Tony Tamburrino9–10Cardo Urso9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ricardo Almeida24 sig landed
HEAD21%5 of 13BODY54%13 of 13LEGS25%6 of 7
Mike Pyle7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 14BODY43%3 of 3LEGS29%2 of 2
24 of 33
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:21
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstDouglas Crosby10–9Tony Tamburrino10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ricardo Almeida10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 14BODY20%2 of 3LEGS50%5 of 10
Mike Pyle18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 17BODY44%8 of 10LEGS17%3 of 6
10 of 27
Sig.
strikes
18 of 33
0 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:35
Control
0:31
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 7Ground 1
Judges · this round · Almeida firstDouglas Crosby9–10Tony Tamburrino9–10Cardo Urso9–10

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Ricardo AlmeidaMike Pyle
Official totals — Ricardo Almeida first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby28–29
Tony Tamburrino28–29
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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, Ricardo Almeida first · unofficial

Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ray Hui MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pyle · 86%29-28 Almeida · 14%

7 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.

Ricardo Almeida

3.74takedowns / 15 min
3.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.80 / 15m
9.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.14 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
35%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Mike Pyle

1.80takedowns / 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

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.

Ricardo Almeida↓ −4.8pp
open 62.8%close 58.0%
Mike Pyle↑ +4.8pp
open 37.2%close 42.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ricardo Almeida opened at 62.8% and closed at 58.0% (−4.8pp), with Mike Pyle 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
Ricardo Almeida-195-15062.8%58.0%−4.8pp
Mike Pyle15513037.2%42.0%+4.8pp
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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