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History · 2012 · UFC 142: Aldo vs Mendes · Rousimar Palhares vs Mike Massenzio
From the tape · 14 Jan 2012

Rousimar Palhares vs Mike Massenzio

UFC 142: Aldo vs Mendes · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Rousimar Palhares beat Mike Massenzio

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
1:03
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

RP
Red corner RousimarPalhares“Toquinho”Team Nogueira · Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
MM
Blue corner MikeMassenzio“The Master of Disaster”Team Bombsquad · Paterson, New Jersey
Middleweight3 rounds14 Jan 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 50 points more takedown defence than Palhares.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
19-8
Record
13-9
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 8"
Height
+6″6' 2"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+38
UFC bouts
5
4/667% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Team Nogueira
Gym
Team Bombsquad
Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
From
Paterson, New Jersey
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

1 round of tape

Round 11:03 of action1 sub attemptEnded 1:03
Rousimar Palhares4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%4 of 5
Mike Massenzio0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 6 thrown

4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
0 of 6
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:02
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
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

Rousimar Palhares

Round
1
Clock
1:03
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: Leon Roberts.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Rousimar Palhares

3.93takedowns / 15 min
3.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.74 / 15m
8.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.42 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
24%
4.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Mike Massenzio

2.74takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Rousimar Palhares↑ +8.5pp
open 73.1%close 81.7%
Mike Massenzio↓ −8.5pp
open 26.9%close 18.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rousimar Palhares opened at 73.1% and closed at 81.7% (+8.5pp), with Mike Massenzio 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
Rousimar Palhares-350-50073.1%81.7%+8.5pp
Mike Massenzio25043526.9%18.3%−8.5pp
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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