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History · 2012 · UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger · Aaron Simpson vs Ronny Markes
From the tape · 15 Feb 2012

Aaron Simpson vs Ronny Markes

UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger · Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Result

Ronny Markes beat Aaron Simpson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Jim Axtel

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.

AS
Red corner AaronSimpson“A-Train”Power MMA Team · Phoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RonnyMarkesNova Uniao RM · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Middleweight3 rounds15 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Simpson.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
12-5
Record
17-5
37
Age
−14 yr23
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+78
UFC bouts
1
2/633% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Power MMA Team
Gym
Nova Uniao RM
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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⚡ 1 KD Simpson
Aaron Simpson32 sig landed
HEAD75%24 of 37BODY9%3 of 4LEGS16%5 of 5
Ronny Markes23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 29BODY4%1 of 1LEGS35%8 of 8
32 of 46
Sig.
strikes
23 of 38
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:28
Control
0:54
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Simpson firstSal D'Amato10–9Steve Garrean10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Aaron Simpson10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 7BODY20%2 of 2LEGS40%4 of 4
Ronny Markes22 sig landed
HEAD27%6 of 13BODY9%2 of 3LEGS64%14 of 15
10 of 13
Sig.
strikes
22 of 31
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:55
Control
2:09
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 10
Judges · this round · Simpson firstSal D'Amato9–10Steve Garrean9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Simpson13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 17BODY46%6 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
Ronny Markes17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 19BODY6%1 of 1LEGS47%8 of 8
13 of 25
Sig.
strikes
17 of 28
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:05
Control
2:16
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Simpson firstSal D'Amato10–9Steve Garrean9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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 · Jim Axtel
Aaron SimpsonRonny Markes
Official totals — Aaron Simpson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Steve Garrean28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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, Aaron Simpson first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Markes · 86%29-28 Simpson · 14%

7 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.

Aaron Simpson

3.78takedowns / 15 min
3.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.13 / 15m
11.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.82 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
40%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Ronny Markes

3.13takedowns / 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.

Aaron Simpson↓ −19.6pp
open 62.3%close 42.7%
Ronny Markes↑ +19.6pp
open 37.7%close 57.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Simpson opened at 62.3% and closed at 42.7% (−19.6pp), with Ronny Markes 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
Aaron Simpson-18513062.3%42.7%−19.6pp
Ronny Markes155-14037.7%57.3%+19.6pp
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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