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Events · UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 · Ivan Menjivar vs Mike Easton
From the tape · 7 Jul 2012

Ivan Menjivar vs Mike Easton

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

Mike Easton beat Ivan Menjivar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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.

IM
Red corner IvanMenjivar“The Pride of El Salvador”Tristar Gym · La Paz
VSOn the tape
ME
Blue corner MikeEaston“The Hulk”Alliance MMA · Temple Hills, Maryland
Bantamweight3 rounds7 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Menjivar.
25-12
Record
13-6
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
64″
Reach
+6″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+24
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Alliance MMA
La Paz
From
Temple Hills, Maryland
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
Ivan Menjivar9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 27BODY33%3 of 9LEGS44%4 of 6
Mike Easton14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 25BODY36%5 of 9LEGS43%6 of 10
9 of 42
Sig.
strikes
14 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:03
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Menjivar firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Mark Smith9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ivan Menjivar17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 36BODY24%4 of 7LEGS53%9 of 13
Mike Easton12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 41BODY25%3 of 9LEGS50%6 of 7
17 of 56
Sig.
strikes
12 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Menjivar firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee9–10Mark Smith9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ivan Menjivar14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 35BODY57%8 of 10LEGS14%2 of 5
Mike Easton20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 50BODY20%4 of 10LEGS40%8 of 8
14 of 50
Sig.
strikes
20 of 68
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:45
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Menjivar firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Lee9–10Mark Smith9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Ivan MenjivarMike Easton
Official totals — Ivan Menjivar first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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, Ivan Menjivar first · unofficial

Ben Fowlkes MMAFighting.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–30
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Easton · 83%30-28 Easton · 17%

6 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.

Ivan Menjivar

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.41 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
22%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Mike Easton

0.75takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Ivan Menjivar↑ +1.7pp
open 50.0%close 51.7%
Mike Easton↓ −1.7pp
open 50.0%close 48.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ivan Menjivar opened at 50.0% and closed at 51.7% (+1.7pp), with Mike Easton 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
Ivan Menjivar-115-11550.0%51.7%+1.7pp
Mike Easton-115-10050.0%48.3%−1.7pp
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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