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History · 2012 · UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Rashad Evans vs Phil Davis
From the tape · 28 Jan 2012

Rashad Evans vs Phil Davis

UFC on FOX: Evans vs Davis · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Rashad Evans beat Phil Davis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RE
Red corner RashadEvans“Suga”Kill Cliff FC · Niagara Falls, New York
VSOn the tape
PD
Blue corner PhilDavis“Mr. Wonderful”Alliance MMA · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Light Heavyweight5 rounds28 Jan 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
19-8-1
Record
17-4
32
Age
−5 yr27
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+4″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
+5%5/1145% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Alliance MMA
Niagara Falls, New York
From
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Rashad Evans7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 28BODY0%0 of 2LEGS57%4 of 6
7 of 21
Sig.
strikes
7 of 36
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:43
Control
0:06
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 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
Rashad Evans11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 33BODY27%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 22BODY40%6 of 13LEGS27%4 of 4
11 of 38
Sig.
strikes
15 of 39
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:54
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 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 action
Rashad Evans9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 14BODY40%4 of 5LEGS30%3 of 7
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
1:26
Control
2:01
Distance 0Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Rashad Evans22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 41BODY9%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 42BODY40%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
10 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:03
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rashad Evans13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 40BODY0%0 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Phil Davis9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 39BODY33%3 of 4LEGS22%2 of 4
13 of 43
Sig.
strikes
9 of 47
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:01
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — Rashad Evans first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Pat Morley50–45
Gabriel Sabaitis50–45

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.

Media cards — 7 scored, Rashad Evans first · unofficial

TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
MM AWeekly.com50–45
Ray Hui MMAFighting.com50–45
Fight Metric.com50–45
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com50–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Evans · 85%48-41 Davis · 5%49-46 Evans · 5%47-46 Davis · 5%

20 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.

Rashad Evans

2.98takedowns / 15 min
2.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.99 / 15m
6.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.87 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
38%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Phil Davis

2.99takedowns / 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.

Rashad Evans↑ +6.7pp
open 57.8%close 64.4%
Phil Davis↓ −6.7pp
open 42.2%close 35.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rashad Evans opened at 57.8% and closed at 64.4% (+6.7pp), with Phil Davis 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
Rashad Evans-155-19157.8%64.4%+6.7pp
Phil Davis12517642.2%35.6%−6.7pp
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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