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History · 2012 · UFC on FUEL TV: Sanchez vs Ellenberger · TJ Dillashaw vs Walel Watson
From the tape · 15 Feb 2012

TJ Dillashaw vs Walel Watson

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

TJ Dillashaw beat Walel Watson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

TD
Red corner TJDillashaw
VSOn the tape
WW
Blue corner WalelWatson“The Gazelle”Team Bodyshop · San Diego, California
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Feb 2012
18-5
Record
14-10
−1 yr26
Age
27
5' 6"
Height
+5″5' 11"
67″
Reach
+8″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
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 action2 sub attempts
TJ Dillashaw23 sig landed
HEAD100%23 of 28BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Walel Watson0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

23 of 28
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:47
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 22
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstJeff Blatnick10–9Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Jobeun10–8
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
TJ Dillashaw46 sig landed
HEAD91%42 of 56BODY7%3 of 3LEGS2%1 of 1
Walel Watson2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
46 of 60
Sig.
strikes
2 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 44
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstJeff Blatnick10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Jobeun10–8
Round 35:00 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
TJ Dillashaw16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 21BODY12%2 of 2LEGS19%3 of 3
Walel Watson9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 22BODY11%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 26
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:01
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstJeff Blatnick10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Jobeun10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
TJ DillashawWalel Watson
Official totals — TJ Dillashaw first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–25
Dave Jobeun30–25

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, TJ Dillashaw first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–24
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–24
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–25
MM AJunkie.com30–25
MM AWeekly.com30–25
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com30–25

Fan vote · unofficial

30-24 Dillashaw · 50%30-25 Dillashaw · 28%30-23 Dillashaw · 17%30-26 Dillashaw · 6%

18 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.

TJ Dillashaw

1.56takedowns / 15 min
1.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
5.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
30%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Walel Watson

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

TJ Dillashawclose only
no opening line on recordclose 70.6%
Walel Watsonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 29.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: TJ Dillashaw 70.6%, Walel Watson 29.4%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
TJ Dillashaw-25570.6%
Walel Watson20023529.4%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for T.J. Dillashaw, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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