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Events · UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Quinton Jackson vs Ryan Bader
From the tape · 25 Feb 2012

Quinton Jackson vs Ryan Bader

UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Ryan Bader beat Quinton Jackson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

QJ
Red corner QuintonJackson“Rampage”Wolfslair Academy · Memphis, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RyanBader“Darth”Power MMA Team · Tempe, Arizona
Light Heavyweight3 rounds25 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Bader.
  • Carries 16 points more striking defence than Jackson.
37-12
Record
23-5
33
Age
−5 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+210
UFC bouts
8
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+7%3/650% of wins
Wolfslair Academy
Gym
Power MMA Team
Memphis, Tennessee
From
Tempe, Arizona
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
Quinton Jackson5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 9BODY40%2 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
Ryan Bader20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 23BODY5%1 of 1LEGS60%12 of 12
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
20 of 36
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
1:42
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jackson firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Quinton Jackson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 14BODY38%3 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
Ryan Bader14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 26BODY7%1 of 1LEGS43%6 of 6
8 of 19
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:21
Control
3:03
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 7
Judges · this round · Jackson firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Quinton Jackson3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ryan Bader21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 22BODY33%7 of 7LEGS5%1 of 3
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
21 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:04
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 18
Judges · this round · Jackson firstSal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Watts9–10

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 · Leon Roberts
Quinton JacksonRyan Bader
Official totals — Quinton Jackson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

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, Quinton Jackson first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com27–30
Fight Metric.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Bader · 57%29-28 Bader · 21%30-24 Jackson · 14%27-24 Bader · 7%

14 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.

Quinton Jackson

1.52takedowns / 15 min
1.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.37 / 15m
2.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.66 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
44%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Ryan Bader

3.37takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Quinton Jackson↓ −9.3pp
open 67.4%close 58.2%
Ryan Bader↑ +9.3pp
open 32.6%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Quinton Jackson opened at 67.4% and closed at 58.2% (−9.3pp), with Ryan Bader 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
Quinton Jackson-250-14567.4%58.2%−9.3pp
Ryan Bader19013532.6%41.8%+9.3pp
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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