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History · 2011 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs Team Miller Finale · Marcus Brimage vs Stephen Bass
From the tape · 3 Dec 2011

Marcus Brimage vs Stephen Bass

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Bisping vs Team Miller Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Marcus Brimage beat Stephen Bass

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

MB
Red corner MarcusBrimage“The Bama Beast”Birmingham, Alabama
VSOn the tape
SB
Blue corner StephenBass“Bigfish”Mad House Gym · Shreveport, Louisiana
Featherweight3 rounds3 Dec 2011
The story going in
  • Carries 80 points more takedown defence than Bass.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Brimage.
7-7
Record
11-2
−3 yr26
Age
29
5' 4"
Height
+5″5' 9"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Birmingham, Alabama
From
Shreveport, Louisiana
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
Marcus Brimage34 sig landed
HEAD71%24 of 51BODY15%5 of 5LEGS15%5 of 6
Stephen Bass24 sig landed
HEAD33%8 of 16BODY50%12 of 12LEGS17%4 of 4
34 of 62
Sig.
strikes
24 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:22
Control
0:16
Distance 25Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 10Ground 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
Marcus Brimage24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 44BODY8%2 of 5LEGS29%7 of 8
Stephen Bass16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 34BODY31%5 of 5LEGS19%3 of 6
24 of 57
Sig.
strikes
16 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:04
Control
0:06
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 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 actionEnded 5:00
Marcus Brimage30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 64BODY20%6 of 11LEGS7%2 of 3
Stephen Bass33 sig landed
HEAD70%23 of 51BODY21%7 of 9LEGS9%3 of 3
30 of 78
Sig.
strikes
33 of 63
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:15
Control
0:02
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 1
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

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Marcus Brimage first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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.

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

Marcus Brimage

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.56takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.56 takedowns and 0.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS13
0.56 / 15m−1.58 vs field
ATTEMPTS3
0.56 / 15m−4.70 vs field
ACCURACY100
100%+56pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.30 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Marcus Brimage↑ +4.8pp
open 43.1%close 47.9%
Stephen Bass↓ −4.8pp
open 56.9%close 52.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marcus Brimage opened at 43.1% and closed at 47.9% (+4.8pp), with Stephen Bass 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
Marcus Brimage12010443.1%47.9%+4.8pp
Stephen Bass-150-11456.9%52.1%−4.8pp
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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