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History · 2012 · UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · Jon Jones vs Rashad Evans
From the tape · 21 Apr 2012

Jon Jones vs Rashad Evans

UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Jon Jones beat Rashad Evans

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

Red corner JonJones“Bones”
VSOn the tape
RE
Blue corner RashadEvans“Suga”Kill Cliff FC · Niagara Falls, New York
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds21 Apr 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
28-1
Record
19-8-1
−8 yr24
Age
32
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
+9″84″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+414
+36%7/978% of wins
Finishes
5/1242% of wins
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jon Jones16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 20BODY38%6 of 13LEGS12%2 of 6
Rashad Evans10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 21BODY10%1 of 2LEGS40%4 of 7
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
10 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Jones21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 35BODY19%4 of 9LEGS10%2 of 3
Rashad Evans16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 25BODY38%6 of 9LEGS25%4 of 5
21 of 47
Sig.
strikes
16 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jon Jones20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 32BODY20%4 of 5LEGS15%3 of 3
Rashad Evans9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 21BODY11%1 of 4LEGS56%5 of 5
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jon Jones23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 34BODY13%3 of 6LEGS17%4 of 4
Rashad Evans7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 18BODY43%3 of 6LEGS29%2 of 2
23 of 44
Sig.
strikes
7 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Jones25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 33BODY8%2 of 4LEGS28%7 of 7
Rashad Evans3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 19BODY67%2 of 6LEGS33%1 of 1
25 of 44
Sig.
strikes
3 of 26
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:43
Control
0:09
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris 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 · Herb Dean
Jon JonesRashad Evans
Official totals — Jon Jones first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide50–45
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide49–46
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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, Jon Jones first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com50–44
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com50–45
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Jones · 51%49-46 Jones · 28%50-44 Jones · 7%48-47 Jones · 4%50-42 Jones · 2%

143 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.

Jon Jones

1.89takedowns / 15 min
1.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.98 / 15m
4.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.77 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
44%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rashad Evans

2.98takedowns / 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.

Jon Jones↑ +1.2pp
open 80.6%close 81.9%
Rashad Evans↓ −1.2pp
open 19.4%close 18.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Jones opened at 80.6% and closed at 81.9% (+1.2pp), with Rashad Evans 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
Jon Jones-500-51080.6%81.9%+1.2pp
Rashad Evans40044019.4%18.1%−1.2pp
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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