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History · 2012 · UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Takeya Mizugaki vs Chris Cariaso
From the tape · 25 Feb 2012

Takeya Mizugaki vs Chris Cariaso

UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Chris Cariaso beat Takeya Mizugaki

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

TM
Red corner TakeyaMizugakiHakkei Gym · Miura, Kanagawa
VSOn the tape
CC
Blue corner ChrisCariaso“Kamikaze”Fight and Fitness · San Francisco, California
Bantamweight3 rounds25 Feb 2012
21-11-2
Record
17-8
−2 yr28
Age
30
+4″5' 7"
Height
5' 3"
+5″69″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
3
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Hakkei Gym
Gym
Fight and Fitness
Miura, Kanagawa
From
San Francisco, California
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
Takeya Mizugaki9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 30BODY0%0 of 1LEGS11%1 of 3
Chris Cariaso8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
9 of 34
Sig.
strikes
8 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:43
Control
0:03
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mizugaki firstHoward Hughes10–9Chris Lee10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Takeya Mizugaki8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 25BODY12%1 of 2LEGS12%1 of 3
Chris Cariaso15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 18BODY53%8 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 30
Sig.
strikes
15 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:19
Control
0:24
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mizugaki firstHoward Hughes9–10Chris Lee9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Takeya Mizugaki11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 19BODY45%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Cariaso14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 11BODY50%7 of 7LEGS7%1 of 1
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:01
Control
0:55
Distance 0Clinch 7Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mizugaki firstHoward Hughes9–10Chris Lee9–10Chris 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
Takeya MizugakiChris Cariaso
Official totals — Takeya Mizugaki first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% 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 — 6 scored, Takeya Mizugaki first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Freddie DeFreitas Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Mizugaki · 67%29-28 Mizugaki · 20%29-28 Cariaso · 7%

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.

Takeya Mizugaki

1.46takedowns / 15 min
1.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.11 / 15m
2.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.85 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
39%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Chris Cariaso

1.11takedowns / 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.

Takeya Mizugaki↑ +10.7pp
open 62.1%close 72.8%
Chris Cariaso↓ −10.7pp
open 37.9%close 27.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Takeya Mizugaki opened at 62.1% and closed at 72.8% (+10.7pp), with Chris Cariaso 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
Takeya Mizugaki-190-29062.1%72.8%+10.7pp
Chris Cariaso15026037.9%27.2%−10.7pp
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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