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Events · UFC 137: Penn vs Diaz · Dustin Jacoby vs Clifford Starks
From the tape · 29 Oct 2011

Dustin Jacoby vs Clifford Starks

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

Clifford Starks beat Dustin Jacoby

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

Red corner DustinJacoby“The Hanyak”Factory X · Arenzville, Illinois
VSOn the tape
CS
Blue corner CliffordStarksArizona Combat Sports · Tempe, Arizona
Middleweight3 rounds29 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Lands 3.5 more significant strikes a minute than Starks.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Jacoby.
22-10-1
Record
13-3
−7 yr23
Age
30
+3″6' 3"
Height
6' 0"
76″
Reach
+2″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Factory X
Gym
Arizona Combat Sports
Arenzville, Illinois
From
Tempe, Arizona
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
Dustin Jacoby6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 28BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Clifford Starks9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 38BODY22%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 29
Sig.
strikes
9 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:29
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jacoby firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Dustin Jacoby11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 23BODY27%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Clifford Starks10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 20BODY10%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 27
Sig.
strikes
10 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:01
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Jacoby firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dustin Jacoby1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Clifford Starks7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 18BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 16
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:22
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Jacoby firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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 · Steve Mazzagatti
Dustin JacobyClifford Starks
Official totals — Dustin Jacoby first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide27–30

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, Dustin Jacoby first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com27–30
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Starks · 80%29-28 Starks · 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.

Dustin Jacoby

0.32takedowns / 15 min
0.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.94 / 15m
1.28 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.94 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Clifford Starks

1.94takedowns / 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.

Dustin Jacoby↓ −1.7pp
open 55.1%close 53.4%
Clifford Starks↑ +1.7pp
open 44.9%close 46.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dustin Jacoby opened at 55.1% and closed at 53.4% (−1.7pp), with Clifford Starks 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
Dustin Jacoby-140-12055.1%53.4%−1.7pp
Clifford Starks11011044.9%46.6%+1.7pp
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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