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History · 2012 · UFC 142: Aldo vs Mendes · Thiago Tavares vs Sam Stout
From the tape · 14 Jan 2012

Thiago Tavares vs Sam Stout

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

Thiago Tavares beat Sam Stout

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

TT
Red corner ThiagoTavaresTeam Tavares · Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
SS
Blue corner SamStout“Hands of Stone”London, Ontario
Lightweight3 rounds14 Jan 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Stout.
  • Lands 2.2 more significant strikes a minute than Tavares.
21-7-1
Record
20-12-1
27
Age
27
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
11
+33%3/650% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Florianopolis, Santa Catarina
From
London, Ontario
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
Thiago Tavares9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 15BODY33%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Sam Stout7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 20BODY71%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
7 of 27
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:08
Control
0:21
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstHoward Hughes10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Thiago Tavares18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 43BODY50%9 of 10LEGS6%1 of 3
Sam Stout16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 47BODY62%10 of 12LEGS6%1 of 3
18 of 56
Sig.
strikes
16 of 62
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstHoward Hughes10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Thiago Tavares23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 34BODY52%12 of 16LEGS13%3 of 3
Sam Stout22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 70BODY32%7 of 8LEGS18%4 of 5
23 of 53
Sig.
strikes
22 of 83
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstHoward Hughes9–10Marcos Rosales10–9Chris Watts9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Thiago TavaresSam Stout
Official totals — Thiago Tavares first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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, Thiago Tavares first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Ray Hui MMAFighting.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Stout · 73%29-28 Tavares · 27%

11 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.

Thiago Tavares

3.83takedowns / 15 min
3.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.63 / 15m
9.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.66 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
38%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sam Stout

0.63takedowns / 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.

Thiago Tavares↑ +5.4pp
open 49.0%close 54.4%
Sam Stout↓ −5.4pp
open 51.0%close 45.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Thiago Tavares opened at 49.0% and closed at 54.4% (+5.4pp), with Sam Stout 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
Thiago Tavares-110-12549.0%54.4%+5.4pp
Sam Stout-12011551.0%45.6%−5.4pp
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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