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History · 2012 · UFC 145: Jones vs Evans · Marcus Brimage vs Maximo Blanco
From the tape · 21 Apr 2012

Marcus Brimage vs Maximo Blanco

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

Marcus Brimage beat Maximo Blanco

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Will Fisher

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.

MB
Red corner MarcusBrimage“The Bama Beast”Birmingham, Alabama
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MaximoBlanco“Maxi”Yoshida Dojo · Caracas
Featherweight3 rounds21 Apr 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than Blanco.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brimage.
7-7
Record
12-8-1
−1 yr27
Age
28
5' 4"
Height
+4″5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Birmingham, Alabama
From
Caracas
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
Marcus Brimage8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 36BODY12%1 of 2LEGS12%1 of 4
Maximo Blanco6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 16BODY0%0 of 3LEGS50%3 of 3
8 of 42
Sig.
strikes
6 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brimage firstRichard Bertrand10–9Chris Lee10–9Anthony Maness10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marcus Brimage6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 31BODY0%0 of 5LEGS33%2 of 7
Maximo Blanco6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 19BODY33%2 of 3LEGS17%1 of 4
6 of 43
Sig.
strikes
6 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brimage firstRichard Bertrand10–9Chris Lee9–10Anthony Maness9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Marcus Brimage10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 41BODY10%1 of 4LEGS40%4 of 6
Maximo Blanco6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 24BODY33%2 of 4LEGS17%1 of 2
10 of 51
Sig.
strikes
6 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Brimage firstRichard Bertrand10–9Chris Lee10–9Anthony Maness9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Will Fisher
Marcus BrimageMaximo Blanco
Official totals — Marcus Brimage first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% 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, Marcus Brimage first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Brimage · 80%30-27 Brimage · 20%

5 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.

Marcus Brimage

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.85 / 15m
0.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.14 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
36%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Maximo Blanco

1.85takedowns / 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.

Marcus Brimage↑ +1.4pp
open 29.8%close 31.2%
Maximo Blanco↓ −1.4pp
open 70.2%close 68.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Marcus Brimage opened at 29.8% and closed at 31.2% (+1.4pp), with Maximo Blanco 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
Marcus Brimage22021529.8%31.2%+1.4pp
Maximo Blanco-280-23570.2%68.8%−1.4pp
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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