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History · 2011 · UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos · Alex Caceres vs Cole Escovedo
From the tape · 12 Nov 2011

Alex Caceres vs Cole Escovedo

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

Alex Caceres beat Cole Escovedo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 AlexCaceres“Bruce Leeroy”MMA Lab · Miami, Florida
VSOn the tape
CE
Blue corner ColeEscovedo“Apache Kid”Pacific Martial Arts · Fresno, California
Bantamweight3 rounds12 Nov 2011
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 51 points more takedown defence than Escovedo.
21-15
Record
17-9
−7 yr23
Age
30
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
MMA Lab
Gym
Pacific Martial Arts
Miami, Florida
From
Fresno, California
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
Alex Caceres33 sig landed
HEAD55%18 of 42BODY24%8 of 10LEGS21%7 of 8
Cole Escovedo4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 15BODY25%1 of 4LEGS25%1 of 4
33 of 60
Sig.
strikes
4 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:07
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 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
Alex Caceres47 sig landed
HEAD60%28 of 57BODY38%18 of 19LEGS2%1 of 1
Cole Escovedo12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 11BODY50%6 of 7LEGS25%3 of 5
47 of 77
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 44Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 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
Alex Caceres22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 27BODY23%5 of 5LEGS18%4 of 5
Cole Escovedo8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 7BODY50%4 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
22 of 37
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:08
Control
1:55
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 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 · Herb Dean
Official totals — Alex Caceres first
JudgeTotal
Abe Belardo2.5 avg spread · 65% wide30–27
Luis Cobian30–27
Gene LeBell30–27

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, Alex Caceres first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Caceres · 86%29-27 Escovedo · 14%

7 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.

Alex Caceres

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.43 / 15m
0.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.30 / 15m
68%
ACCURACY
33%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Cole Escovedo

0.43takedowns / 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.

Alex Caceres↓ −3.3pp
open 31.6%close 28.3%
Cole Escovedo↑ +3.3pp
open 68.4%close 71.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alex Caceres opened at 31.6% and closed at 28.3% (−3.3pp), with Cole Escovedo 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
Alex Caceres20024831.6%28.3%−3.3pp
Cole Escovedo-260-27068.4%71.7%+3.3pp
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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