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History · 2011 · UFC 136: Edgar vs Maynard 3 · Steve Cantwell vs Mike Massenzio
From the tape · 8 Oct 2011

Steve Cantwell vs Mike Massenzio

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

Mike Massenzio beat Steve Cantwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain 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.

SC
Red corner SteveCantwell“The Robot”One Kick's Gym · Pahrump, Nevada
VSOn the tape
MM
Blue corner MikeMassenzio“The Master of Disaster”Team Bombsquad · Paterson, New Jersey
Middleweight3 rounds8 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Massenzio.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cantwell.
7-6
Record
13-9
−4 yr24
Age
28
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
4
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
One Kick's Gym
Gym
Team Bombsquad
Pahrump, Nevada
From
Paterson, New Jersey
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
Steve Cantwell14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 53BODY29%4 of 13LEGS14%2 of 3
Mike Massenzio19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 38BODY21%4 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
14 of 69
Sig.
strikes
19 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:10
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 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
Steve Cantwell20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 32BODY80%16 of 19LEGS0%0 of 3
Mike Massenzio29 sig landed
HEAD90%26 of 57BODY7%2 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
20 of 54
Sig.
strikes
29 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:00
Control
1:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 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 action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Steve Cantwell22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 25BODY59%13 of 15LEGS0%0 of 1
Mike Massenzio30 sig landed
HEAD97%29 of 57BODY3%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 41
Sig.
strikes
30 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
2:19
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 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 · Kerry Hatley
Official totals — Steve Cantwell first
JudgeTotal
Danny De Alejandro28–29
Charles Phillips27–30
David Lassiter28–29

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, Steve Cantwell first · unofficial

Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Massenzio · 100%

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.

Steve Cantwell

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.74 / 15m
2.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.42 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
24%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Mike Massenzio

2.74takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Steve Cantwell→ no move
open 59.4%close 59.8%
Mike Massenzio→ no move
open 40.6%close 40.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Steve Cantwell opened at 59.4% and closed at 59.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp 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
Steve Cantwell-165-15559.4%59.8%+0.4pp
Mike Massenzio13514540.6%40.2%−0.4pp
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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