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Events · UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson · Urijah Faber vs Brian Bowles
From the tape · 19 Nov 2011

Urijah Faber vs Brian Bowles

UFC 139: Shogun vs Henderson · San Jose, California, USA
Result

Urijah Faber beat Brian Bowles

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
1:27
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason McCoy

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.

UF
Red corner UrijahFaber“The California Kid”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
BB
Blue corner BrianBowlesHardcore Gym · Athens, Georgia
Bantamweight3 rounds19 Nov 2011
The story going in
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than Bowles.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
35-11
Record
10-3
32
Age
−1 yr31
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
67″
Reach
+3″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Hardcore Gym
Sacramento, California
From
Athens, Georgia
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Urijah Faber17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 30BODY12%2 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
Brian Bowles13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 54BODY38%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
17 of 36
Sig.
strikes
13 of 61
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:25
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 21:27 of action⚡ 1 KD Faber1 sub attemptEnded 1:27
Urijah Faber19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 24BODY5%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Brian Bowles0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 7 thrown

19 of 25
Sig.
strikes
0 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:56
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Urijah Faber

Round
2
Clock
1:27
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason McCoy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Urijah Faber

1.54takedowns / 15 min
1.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.39 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.99 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
70%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Brian Bowles

1.39takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Urijah Faber→ no move
open 62.8%close 62.6%
Brian Bowles→ no move
open 37.2%close 37.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Urijah Faber opened at 62.8% and closed at 62.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Urijah Faber-195-17462.8%62.6%−0.1pp
Brian Bowles15516437.2%37.4%+0.1pp
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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