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History · 2011 · UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos · Mike Pierce vs Paul Bradley
From the tape · 12 Nov 2011

Mike Pierce vs Paul Bradley

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

Mike Pierce beat Paul Bradley

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Larry Landless

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.

MP
Red corner MikePierceSports Lab · Portland, Oregon
VSOn the tape
PB
Blue corner PaulBradley“The Gentleman”Alliance MMA · San Diego, California
Welterweight3 rounds12 Nov 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Pierce.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Bradley.
17-7
Record
23-8
31
Age
−3 yr28
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
Sports Lab
Gym
Alliance MMA
Portland, Oregon
From
San Diego, 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 — 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
Mike Pierce24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 44BODY21%5 of 5LEGS21%5 of 7
Paul Bradley17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 30BODY24%4 of 5LEGS12%2 of 4
24 of 56
Sig.
strikes
17 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:17
Control
0:31
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstLuis Cobian9–10Lester Griffin9–10Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Mike Pierce17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 25BODY12%2 of 2LEGS18%3 of 4
Paul Bradley22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 38BODY14%3 of 3LEGS14%3 of 4
17 of 31
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstLuis Cobian10–9Lester Griffin10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mike Pierce34 sig landed
HEAD74%25 of 47BODY21%7 of 7LEGS6%2 of 3
Paul Bradley24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 56BODY12%3 of 3LEGS8%2 of 2
34 of 57
Sig.
strikes
24 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:33
Distance 28Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstLuis Cobian10–9Lester Griffin9–10Nelson Hamilton10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Larry Landless
Mike PiercePaul Bradley
Official totals — Mike Pierce first
JudgeTotal
Luis Cobian29–28
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

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, Mike Pierce first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pierce · 40%30-27 Pierce · 40%29-28 Bradley · 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.

Mike Pierce

3.08takedowns / 15 min
3.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
7.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.00 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
16%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Paul Bradley

1.12takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Mike Pierce↑ +1.7pp
open 71.8%close 73.5%
Paul Bradley↓ −1.7pp
open 28.2%close 26.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mike Pierce opened at 71.8% and closed at 73.5% (+1.7pp), with Paul Bradley 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
Mike Pierce-300-30071.8%73.5%+1.7pp
Paul Bradley24027028.2%26.5%−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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