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Events · UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit · Josh Koscheck vs Mike Pierce
From the tape · 4 Feb 2012

Josh Koscheck vs Mike Pierce

UFC 143: Diaz vs Condit · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Josh Koscheck beat Mike Pierce

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · 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.

JK
Red corner JoshKoscheckDethrone Base Camp · Buffalo, New York
VSOn the tape
MP
Blue corner MikePierceSports Lab · Portland, Oregon
Welterweight3 rounds4 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Pierce.
17-11
Record
17-7
34
Age
−3 yr31
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+2″73″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1219
UFC bouts
7
+24%9/1464% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Dethrone Base Camp
Gym
Sports Lab
Buffalo, New York
From
Portland, Oregon
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
Josh Koscheck12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 31BODY33%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Mike Pierce16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 36BODY12%2 of 2LEGS19%3 of 3
12 of 35
Sig.
strikes
16 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:14
Control
1:45
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Koscheck firstJeff Collins9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Josh Koscheck8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 25BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Mike Pierce14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 37BODY29%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 27
Sig.
strikes
14 of 43
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:44
Control
0:37
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Koscheck firstJeff Collins10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Koscheck13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 28BODY38%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Mike Pierce11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 31BODY18%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 33
Sig.
strikes
11 of 35
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:39
Control
0:17
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Koscheck firstJeff Collins10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Josh KoscheckMike Pierce
Official totals — Josh Koscheck first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 7 scored, Josh Koscheck first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Fight Metric.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pierce · 75%29-28 Koscheck · 11%30-27 Koscheck · 7%30-29 Koscheck · 2%

44 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.

Josh Koscheck

2.46takedowns / 15 min
2.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.08 / 15m
5.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.33 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
42%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Mike Pierce

3.08takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Josh Koscheck↑ +1.5pp
open 70.2%close 71.7%
Mike Pierce↓ −1.5pp
open 29.8%close 28.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Koscheck opened at 70.2% and closed at 71.7% (+1.5pp), with Mike Pierce 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
Josh Koscheck-280-27070.2%71.7%+1.5pp
Mike Pierce22024829.8%28.3%−1.5pp
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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