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Events · UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2 · Rafael Natal vs Paul Bradley
From the tape · 6 Aug 2011

Rafael Natal vs Paul Bradley

UFC 133: Evans vs Ortiz 2 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Rafael Natal beat Paul Bradley

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Mulhall

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.

RN
Red corner RafaelNatal“Sapo”Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
PB
Blue corner PaulBradley“The Gentleman”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Middleweight3 rounds6 Aug 2011
The story going in
  • Is 15 points more accurate striking than Bradley.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Natal.
21-9-1
Record
23-8
28
Age
28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Renzo Gracie Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Alliance MMA
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
From
San Diego, 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rafael Natal10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 28BODY10%1 of 5LEGS50%5 of 10
Paul Bradley3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 22BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
10 of 43
Sig.
strikes
3 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Natal firstWilfredo Cintron10–9Kings Kao10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Natal12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS58%7 of 11
Paul Bradley5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 21BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 37
Sig.
strikes
5 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
1:33
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Natal firstWilfredo Cintron9–10Kings Kao10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Natal21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 28BODY24%5 of 6LEGS38%8 of 9
Paul Bradley5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 19BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 43
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 8
0:03
Control
1:00
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Natal firstWilfredo Cintron10–9Kings Kao10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Kevin Mulhall
Rafael NatalPaul Bradley
Official totals — Rafael Natal first
JudgeTotal
Wilfredo Cintron29–28
Kings Kao30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Rafael Natal first · unofficial

Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Natal · 60%30-27 Natal · 20%29-28 Bradley · 20%

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

The level change — head to head

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

Rafael Natal

2.55takedowns / 15 min
2.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
7.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.00 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
16%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Paul Bradley

1.12takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Rafael Natal↓ −9.3pp
open 52.0%close 42.7%
Paul Bradley↑ +9.3pp
open 48.0%close 57.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Natal opened at 52.0% and closed at 42.7% (−9.3pp), with Paul Bradley 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
Rafael Natal-12513052.0%42.7%−9.3pp
Paul Bradley-105-14048.0%57.3%+9.3pp
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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