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History · 2012 · UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2 · John Alessio vs Shane Roller
From the tape · 7 Jul 2012

John Alessio vs Shane Roller

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

Shane Roller beat John Alessio

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

JA
Red corner JohnAlessio“The Natural”Xtreme Couture · Vancouver, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
SR
Blue corner ShaneRollerTeam Takedown · Bixby, Oklahoma
Lightweight3 rounds7 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Roller.
35-17
Record
11-7
33
Age
−1 yr32
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
4
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Team Takedown
Vancouver, British Columbia
From
Bixby, Oklahoma
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
John Alessio23 sig landed
HEAD74%17 of 61BODY26%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Shane Roller15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 35BODY13%2 of 4LEGS20%3 of 3
23 of 68
Sig.
strikes
15 of 42
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:20
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alessio firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Alessio3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 13BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Shane Roller11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 12BODY9%1 of 1LEGS45%5 of 5
3 of 14
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:20
Control
3:58
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 5
Judges · this round · Alessio firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Alessio9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Shane Roller5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
9 of 21
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:24
Control
4:01
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Alessio firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10

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
John AlessioShane Roller
Official totals — John Alessio first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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, John Alessio first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Roller · 86%29-28 Alessio · 14%

7 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.

John Alessio

1.85takedowns / 15 min
1.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.46 / 15m
4.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.45 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
33%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.90 / 15m

Shane Roller

2.46takedowns / 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.

John Alessio↑ +2.8pp
open 37.9%close 40.7%
Shane Roller↓ −2.8pp
open 62.1%close 59.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Alessio opened at 37.9% and closed at 40.7% (+2.8pp), with Shane Roller 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
John Alessio15014037.9%40.7%+2.8pp
Shane Roller-190-15562.1%59.3%−2.8pp
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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