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History · 2012 · UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · Mac Danzig vs Efrain Escudero
From the tape · 21 Apr 2012

Mac Danzig vs Efrain Escudero

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

Mac Danzig beat Efrain Escudero

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Blake Grice

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.

MD
Red corner MacDanzigDanzig MMA · Los Angeles, California
VSOn the tape
EE
Blue corner EfrainEscudero“Hecho En Mexico”MMA Lab · Tempe, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds21 Apr 2012
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Danzig.
21-12-1
Record
28-12
32
Age
−6 yr26
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+39
UFC bouts
6
+42%3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Danzig MMA
Gym
MMA Lab
Los Angeles, California
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 action1 sub attempt
Mac Danzig16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 19BODY44%7 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
Efrain Escudero17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 21BODY18%3 of 5LEGS41%7 of 7
16 of 28
Sig.
strikes
17 of 33
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:13
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Danzig firstKen Coffey10–9Chris Lee10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Mac Danzig21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 25BODY38%8 of 8LEGS33%7 of 7
Efrain Escudero15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 33BODY27%4 of 4LEGS33%5 of 7
21 of 40
Sig.
strikes
15 of 44
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:31
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Danzig firstKen Coffey10–9Chris Lee10–9Cardo Urso9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mac Danzig30 sig landed
HEAD33%10 of 31BODY40%12 of 12LEGS27%8 of 8
Efrain Escudero24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 40BODY33%8 of 11LEGS21%5 of 5
30 of 51
Sig.
strikes
24 of 56
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:51
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 23Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Danzig firstKen Coffey10–9Chris Lee10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Blake Grice
Mac DanzigEfrain Escudero
Official totals — Mac Danzig first
JudgeTotal
Ken Coffey30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 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, Mac Danzig first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Danzig · 100%

4 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.

Mac Danzig

1.20takedowns / 15 min
1.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
3.24 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.27 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
40%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Efrain Escudero

1.31takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mac Danzig↓ −1.1pp
open 57.5%close 56.4%
Efrain Escudero↑ +1.1pp
open 42.5%close 43.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mac Danzig opened at 57.5% and closed at 56.4% (−1.1pp), with Efrain Escudero 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
Mac Danzig-160-13557.5%56.4%−1.1pp
Efrain Escudero12012542.5%43.6%+1.1pp
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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