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Events · UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields · Georges St-Pierre vs Jake Shields
From the tape · 30 Apr 2011

Georges St-Pierre vs Jake Shields

UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Georges St-Pierre beat Jake Shields

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

GS
Red corner GeorgesSt-Pierre“Rush”Tristar Gym · St. Isidore, Quebec
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner JakeShieldsCesar Gracie Fight Team · San Francisco, California
Welterweight Title5 rounds30 Apr 2011
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 15 UFC wins.
26-2
Record
31-9-1
−3 yr29
Age
32
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1617
UFC bouts
1
7/1547% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Cesar Gracie Fight Team
St. Isidore, Quebec
From
San Francisco, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 36BODY12%2 of 5LEGS18%3 of 3
Jake Shields13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 60BODY23%3 of 5LEGS46%6 of 10
17 of 44
Sig.
strikes
13 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:04
Control
0:20
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 33BODY27%6 of 11LEGS14%3 of 3
Jake Shields16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 63BODY31%5 of 9LEGS25%4 of 11
22 of 47
Sig.
strikes
16 of 83
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 33BODY44%8 of 12LEGS17%3 of 3
Jake Shields14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 51BODY57%8 of 13LEGS21%3 of 8
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
14 of 72
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 38BODY15%2 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Shields14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 80BODY29%4 of 6LEGS21%3 of 7
13 of 46
Sig.
strikes
14 of 93
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:17
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand9–10Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Georges St-Pierre15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 50BODY20%3 of 9LEGS7%1 of 1
Jake Shields21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 64BODY33%7 of 11LEGS5%1 of 3
15 of 60
Sig.
strikes
21 of 78
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · St-Pierre firstRichard Bertrand9–10Douglas Crosby10–9Nelson Hamilton9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Georges St-PierreJake Shields
Official totals — Georges St-Pierre first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide48–47
Douglas Crosby50–45
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide48–47

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 — 7 scored, Georges St-Pierre first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com50–45
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AWeekly.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–46
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com50–47
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com49–46
Fight Metric.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 St-Pierre · 48%49-46 St-Pierre · 19%48-47 St-Pierre · 16%48-47 Shields · 6%

158 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.

Georges St-Pierre

4.16takedowns / 15 min
4.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.83 / 15m
5.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.76 / 15m
74%
ACCURACY
29%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Jake Shields

2.83takedowns / 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.

Georges St-Pierre↑ +1.0pp
open 79.5%close 80.5%
Jake Shields↓ −1.0pp
open 20.5%close 19.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Georges St-Pierre opened at 79.5% and closed at 80.5% (+1.0pp), with Jake Shields 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
Georges St-Pierre-505-45579.5%80.5%+1.0pp
Jake Shields36540520.5%19.5%−1.0pp
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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