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History · 2012 · UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Riki Fukuda vs Steve Cantwell
From the tape · 25 Feb 2012

Riki Fukuda vs Steve Cantwell

UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Riki Fukuda beat Steve Cantwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

RF
Red corner RikiFukudaGrabaka · Gifu, Gifu
VSOn the tape
SC
Blue corner SteveCantwell“The Robot”One Kick's Gym · Pahrump, Nevada
Middleweight3 rounds25 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cantwell.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Fukuda.
24-9
Record
7-6
31
Age
−6 yr25
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+45
Grabaka
Gym
One Kick's Gym
Gifu, Gifu
From
Pahrump, Nevada
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
Riki Fukuda21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 36BODY5%1 of 3LEGS29%6 of 9
Steve Cantwell15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 35BODY33%5 of 10LEGS27%4 of 5
21 of 48
Sig.
strikes
15 of 50
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fukuda firstHoward Hughes10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Riki Fukuda47 sig landed
HEAD83%39 of 78BODY4%2 of 2LEGS13%6 of 8
Steve Cantwell21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 39BODY24%5 of 11LEGS5%1 of 2
47 of 88
Sig.
strikes
21 of 52
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:51
Control
0:12
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 33Clinch 14Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fukuda firstHoward Hughes10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Riki Fukuda56 sig landed
HEAD59%33 of 76BODY21%12 of 16LEGS20%11 of 14
Steve Cantwell11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 38BODY18%2 of 7LEGS9%1 of 1
56 of 106
Sig.
strikes
11 of 46
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 50Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fukuda firstHoward Hughes10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Riki FukudaSteve Cantwell
Official totals — Riki Fukuda first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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, Riki Fukuda first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Fukuda · 83%30-26 Fukuda · 17%

6 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.

Riki Fukuda

2.17takedowns / 15 min
2.17 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.65 / 15m
5.05 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.17 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
30%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Steve Cantwell

0.65takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Riki Fukuda↑ +7.3pp
open 66.9%close 74.2%
Steve Cantwell↓ −7.3pp
open 33.1%close 25.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Riki Fukuda opened at 66.9% and closed at 74.2% (+7.3pp), with Steve Cantwell 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
Riki Fukuda-260-31066.9%74.2%+7.3pp
Steve Cantwell18028033.1%25.8%−7.3pp
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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