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History · 2012 · UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger · Diego Sanchez vs Jake Ellenberger
From the tape · 15 Feb 2012

Diego Sanchez vs Jake Ellenberger

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

Jake Ellenberger beat Diego Sanchez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
JE
Blue corner JakeEllenberger“The Juggernaut”Reign MMA · Omaha, Nebraska
Welterweight3 rounds15 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
31-13
Record
31-15
30
Age
−4 yr26
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1016
UFC bouts
6
5/1242% of wins
Finishes
+38%4/580% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Reign MMA
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Omaha, Nebraska
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Ellenberger
Diego Sanchez11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 36BODY45%5 of 7LEGS18%2 of 2
Jake Ellenberger23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 42BODY22%5 of 7LEGS4%1 of 1
11 of 45
Sig.
strikes
23 of 50
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 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
Diego Sanchez6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 21BODY33%2 of 6LEGS17%1 of 2
Jake Ellenberger19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 33BODY5%1 of 2LEGS21%4 of 5
6 of 29
Sig.
strikes
19 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:12
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 35BODY17%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Ellenberger20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 27BODY20%4 of 4LEGS15%3 of 3
12 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:08
Control
0:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 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 · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide28–29
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide28–29

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, Diego Sanchez first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ellenberger · 100%

15 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.

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.04 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.34 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
47%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jake Ellenberger

2.04takedowns / 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.

Diego Sanchez↓ −8.2pp
open 31.6%close 23.4%
Jake Ellenberger↑ +8.2pp
open 68.4%close 76.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 31.6% and closed at 23.4% (−8.2pp), with Jake Ellenberger 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
Diego Sanchez20032031.6%23.4%−8.2pp
Jake Ellenberger-260-35568.4%76.6%+8.2pp
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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