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History · 2011 · UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill · Michael McDonald vs Chris Cariaso
From the tape · 28 May 2011

Michael McDonald vs Chris Cariaso

UFC 130: Rampage vs Hamill · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Michael McDonald beat Chris Cariaso

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

MM
Red corner MichaelMcDonald
VSOn the tape
CC
Blue corner ChrisCariaso“Kamikaze”Fight and Fitness · San Francisco, California
Bantamweight3 rounds28 May 2011
The register carries nothing we can compare on both sides for this bout, so no ladder is drawn.

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
Michael McDonald15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 27BODY13%2 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
Chris Cariaso18 sig landed
HEAD33%6 of 19BODY28%5 of 5LEGS39%7 of 7
15 of 31
Sig.
strikes
18 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:58
Control
0:22
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · McDonald firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael McDonald11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 18BODY9%1 of 1LEGS45%5 of 5
Chris Cariaso15 sig landed
HEAD27%4 of 14BODY40%6 of 6LEGS33%5 of 6
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
15 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McDonald firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael McDonald6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 8BODY17%1 of 1LEGS50%3 of 3
Chris Cariaso11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 18BODY55%6 of 6LEGS27%3 of 4
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
11 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:30
Control
1:16
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McDonald firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Michael McDonaldChris Cariaso
Official totals — Michael McDonald first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 5 scored, Michael McDonald first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Matt Erickson MMAFighting.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 McDonald · 60%29-28 Cariaso · 40%

5 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

Chris Cariaso

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.11takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.11 landed per 15 minutes — −1.03 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS35
1.11 / 15m−1.03 vs field
ATTEMPTS31
2.85 / 15m−2.41 vs field
ACCURACY47
39%−5pp vs field
SUB ATT54
0.80 / 15m−0.50 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Michael McDonald vs Chris Cariaso.

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