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History · 2011 · UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos · Aaron Rosa vs Matt Lucas
From the tape · 12 Nov 2011

Aaron Rosa vs Matt Lucas

UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Aaron Rosa beat Matt Lucas

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

AR
Red corner AaronRosaRodrigo Pinheiro BJJ · San Antonio, Texas
VSOn the tape
ML
Blue corner MattLucas“Luke Duke”Arizona Combat Sports · Mesa, Arizona
Light Heavyweight3 rounds12 Nov 2011
18-6
Record
15-3
−9 yr28
Age
37
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
Rodrigo Pinheiro BJJ
Gym
Arizona Combat Sports
San Antonio, Texas
From
Mesa, 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
Aaron Rosa21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 24BODY67%14 of 14LEGS5%1 of 1
Matt Lucas9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:03
Control
2:49
Distance 5Clinch 16Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Rosa firstAbe Belardo10–9Luis Cobian10–9Gene LeBell9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Aaron Rosa10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 16BODY10%1 of 3LEGS20%2 of 2
Matt Lucas4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 21
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
2:26
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rosa firstAbe Belardo10–8Luis Cobian10–8Gene LeBell9–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Rosa28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 23BODY50%14 of 14LEGS7%2 of 2
Matt Lucas6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
28 of 39
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:50
Control
1:35
Distance 10Clinch 18Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rosa firstAbe Belardo10–9Luis Cobian10–9Gene LeBell10–9

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

Majority Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Aaron RosaMatt Lucas
Official totals — Aaron Rosa first
JudgeTotal
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide30–26
Luis Cobian30–26
Gene LeBell28–28

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, Aaron Rosa first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–26
MM AWeekly.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Rosa · 75%29-27 Rosa · 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 Rosa

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
1.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.00 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
10%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Matt Lucas

1.00takedowns / 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.

Aaron Rosa↓ −3.5pp
open 56.9%close 53.4%
Matt Lucas↑ +3.5pp
open 43.1%close 46.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Rosa opened at 56.9% and closed at 53.4% (−3.5pp), with Matt Lucas 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 Rosa-150-12056.9%53.4%−3.5pp
Matt Lucas12011043.1%46.6%+3.5pp
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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