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History · 2011 · UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 · Anthony Pettis vs Jeremy Stephens
From the tape · 8 Oct 2011

Anthony Pettis vs Jeremy Stephens

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

Anthony Pettis beat Jeremy Stephens

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

AP
Red corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
Lightweight3 rounds8 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
24-10
Record
29-23
−1 yr24
Age
25
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+1112
Roufusport
Gym
Alliance MMA
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Des Moines, Iowa
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
Anthony Pettis9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 19BODY11%1 of 2LEGS56%5 of 5
Jeremy Stephens9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 19BODY22%2 of 3LEGS56%5 of 7
9 of 26
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:08
Control
1:53
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby9–10Danny Dealejandro9–10Charles Phillips9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Pettis2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jeremy Stephens6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY50%3 of 3LEGS33%2 of 2
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
4 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:18
Control
0:07
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby10–9Danny Dealejandro10–9Charles Phillips10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Pettis10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS60%6 of 6
Jeremy Stephens2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 2
10 of 15
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
2 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 5
2:28
Control
1:29
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDouglas Crosby10–9Danny Dealejandro10–9Charles Phillips9–10

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 · Kerry Hatley
Anthony PettisJeremy Stephens
Official totals — Anthony Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby29–28
Danny Dealejandro29–28
Charles Phillips28–29

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 — 5 scored, Anthony Pettis first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com29–28
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pettis · 62%29-28 Stephens · 20%30-27 Pettis · 10%30-28 Pettis · 5%

40 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.

Anthony Pettis

0.61takedowns / 15 min
0.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.10 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.89 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
38%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 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.

Anthony Pettis→ no move
open 72.1%close 72.3%
Jeremy Stephens→ no move
open 27.9%close 27.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Anthony Pettis opened at 72.1% and closed at 72.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Anthony Pettis-320-28072.1%72.3%+0.2pp
Jeremy Stephens24025527.9%27.7%−0.2pp
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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