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History · 2011 · UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Brandon Vera vs Eliot Marshall
From the tape · 29 Oct 2011

Brandon Vera vs Eliot Marshall

UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brandon Vera beat Eliot Marshall

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kim Winslow

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.

BV
Red corner BrandonVera“The Truth”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
EM
Blue corner EliotMarshall“Fire”Grudge Training Center · Boulder, Colorado
Light Heavyweight3 rounds29 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Marshall.
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Vera.
15-7
Record
10-4
34
Age
−3 yr31
+1″6' 3"
Height
6' 2"
+1″78″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
+38%5/771% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Grudge Training Center
San Diego, California
From
Boulder, Colorado
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
Brandon Vera15 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 8BODY27%4 of 6LEGS67%10 of 14
Eliot Marshall9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 18BODY56%5 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstDave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brandon Vera9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 6BODY11%1 of 1LEGS56%5 of 6
Eliot Marshall3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 13
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:16
Control
0:51
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstDave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Marshall2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Brandon Vera9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 12BODY11%1 of 4LEGS44%4 of 8
Eliot Marshall9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 21BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
9 of 24
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:58
Control
1:19
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Vera firstDave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Cecil Peoples9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kim Winslow
Brandon VeraEliot Marshall
Official totals — Brandon Vera first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% 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, Brandon Vera first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vera · 62%29-28 Marshall · 12%

8 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.

Brandon Vera

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.47 / 15m
1.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.42 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Eliot Marshall

0.47takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Brandon Vera↓ −1.2pp
open 78.9%close 77.7%
Eliot Marshall↑ +1.2pp
open 21.1%close 22.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Vera opened at 78.9% and closed at 77.7% (−1.2pp), with Eliot Marshall 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
Brandon Vera-485-38078.9%77.7%−1.2pp
Eliot Marshall35034021.1%22.3%+1.2pp
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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