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History · 2011 · UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 · Aaron Simpson vs Eric Schafer
From the tape · 8 Oct 2011

Aaron Simpson vs Eric Schafer

UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Aaron Simpson beat Eric Schafer

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Jacob Montalvo

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.

AS
Red corner AaronSimpson“A-Train”Power MMA Team · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
ES
Blue corner EricSchafer“Red”Red Schafer MMA · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds8 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Schafer’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
12-5
Record
14-8-2
37
Age
−3 yr34
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
73″
Reach
+3″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
7
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+60%3/3100% of wins
Power MMA Team
Gym
Red Schafer MMA
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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⚡ 1 KD Simpson
Aaron Simpson21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 45BODY38%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Eric Schafer3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 29BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 55
Sig.
strikes
3 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Simpson
Aaron Simpson26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 42BODY23%6 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
Eric Schafer7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 40BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 55
Sig.
strikes
7 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Simpson11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 22BODY27%3 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Eric Schafer4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
4 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jacob Montalvo
Official totals — Aaron Simpson first
JudgeTotal
David Lassiter30–27
Dan Mathisen30–27
Charles Phillips30–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 6 scored, Aaron Simpson first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–26
MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com30–27
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Simpson · 75%30-26 Simpson · 25%

4 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.

Aaron Simpson

3.78takedowns / 15 min
3.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.81 / 15m
11.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
36%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.80 / 15m

Eric Schafer

1.81takedowns / 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.

Aaron Simpson↑ +4.8pp
open 73.6%close 78.4%
Eric Schafer↓ −4.8pp
open 26.4%close 21.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Simpson opened at 73.6% and closed at 78.4% (+4.8pp), with Eric Schafer 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
Aaron Simpson-325-40073.6%78.4%+4.8pp
Eric Schafer26535526.4%21.6%−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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