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History · 2012 · UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 · Cung Le vs Patrick Cote
From the tape · 7 Jul 2012

Cung Le vs Patrick Cote

UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Cung Le beat Patrick Cote

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

CL
Red corner CungLeCung Le's Universal Strength Headquarters · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
PC
Blue corner PatrickCote“The Predator”BTT Canada · Quebec City, Quebec
Middleweight3 rounds7 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 45 points more takedown defence than Cote.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
9-3
Record
23-11
40
Age
−8 yr32
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+5″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+1011
Cung Le's Universal Strength Headquarters
Gym
BTT Canada
San Jose, California
From
Quebec City, Quebec
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
Cung Le18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 26BODY39%7 of 7LEGS17%3 of 4
Patrick Cote13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 23BODY23%3 of 5LEGS54%7 of 13
18 of 37
Sig.
strikes
13 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Le firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Mark Smith10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cung Le21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 30BODY33%7 of 11LEGS10%2 of 3
Patrick Cote26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 43BODY38%10 of 12LEGS19%5 of 6
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
26 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:14
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Le firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Mark Smith10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cung Le16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 21BODY50%8 of 9LEGS6%1 of 2
Patrick Cote12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 19BODY33%4 of 7LEGS25%3 of 5
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
12 of 31
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:50
Control
0:57
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Le firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Mark Smith10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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 · Josh Rosenthal
Cung LePatrick Cote
Official totals — Cung Le first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–27

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, Cung Le first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Le · 54%29-28 Le · 27%29-28 Cote · 18%

11 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.

Cung Le

1.37takedowns / 15 min
1.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.68 / 15m
1.93 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.40 / 15m
71%
ACCURACY
20%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Patrick Cote

0.68takedowns / 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.

Cung Le↑ +1.9pp
open 33.6%close 35.5%
Patrick Cote↓ −1.9pp
open 66.4%close 64.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cung Le opened at 33.6% and closed at 35.5% (+1.9pp), with Patrick Cote 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
Cung Le18017533.6%35.5%+1.9pp
Patrick Cote-240-19566.4%64.5%−1.9pp
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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