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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Live Finale · Daron Cruickshank vs Chris Tickle
From the tape · 1 Jun 2012

Daron Cruickshank vs Chris Tickle

The Ultimate Fighter: Live Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Daron Cruickshank beat Chris Tickle

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

DC
Red corner DaronCruickshank“Detroit Superstar”Michigan Top Team · Wayne, Michigan
VSOn the tape
CT
Blue corner ChrisTickle“BadBoy”Adrenaline MMA · Bloomington, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds1 Jun 2012
18-10
Record
9-9
−4 yr26
Age
30
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
Michigan Top Team
Gym
Adrenaline MMA
Wayne, Michigan
From
Bloomington, Illinois
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Daron Cruickshank7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 11BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Tickle6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 9BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
7 of 13
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:04
Control
0:33
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Daron Cruickshank4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 3BODY25%1 of 2LEGS50%2 of 2
Chris Tickle5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 14BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
2:36
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Daron Cruickshank6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 7BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Chris Tickle5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 11BODY40%2 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 3
2:30
Control
1:54
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Daron Cruickshank first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–27
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Daron Cruickshank

2.04takedowns / 15 min
2.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
4.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
25%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.00 / 15m

Chris Tickle

1.00takedowns / 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.

Daron Cruickshank↓ −1.2pp
open 63.8%close 62.6%
Chris Tickle↑ +1.2pp
open 36.2%close 37.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Daron Cruickshank opened at 63.8% and closed at 62.6% (−1.2pp), with Chris Tickle 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
Daron Cruickshank-210-17763.8%62.6%−1.2pp
Chris Tickle16016236.2%37.4%+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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