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History · 2012 · UFC 149: Faber vs Barao · Brian Ebersole vs James Head
From the tape · 21 Jul 2012

Brian Ebersole vs James Head

UFC 149: Faber vs Barao · Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Result

James Head beat Brian Ebersole

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

BE
Red corner BrianEbersole“Bad Boy”Tiger Muay Thai · Bradley, Illinois
VSOn the tape
JH
Blue corner JamesHeadR-1 MMA · Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Welterweight3 rounds21 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Head.
51-18-1
Record
9-4
31
Age
−3 yr28
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+24
UFC bouts
2
1/425% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Tiger Muay Thai
Gym
R-1 MMA
Bradley, Illinois
From
Oklahoma City, 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 action1 sub attempt
Brian Ebersole14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 14BODY29%4 of 6LEGS21%3 of 4
James Head12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 25BODY42%5 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
12 of 31
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
1:01
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 1
Judges · this round · Ebersole firstJeff Blatnick10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brian Ebersole10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 19BODY10%1 of 2LEGS60%6 of 8
James Head16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 20BODY38%6 of 8LEGS12%2 of 2
10 of 29
Sig.
strikes
16 of 30
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ebersole firstJeff Blatnick9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brian Ebersole11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 20BODY36%4 of 7LEGS36%4 of 8
James Head9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 19BODY22%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 35
Sig.
strikes
9 of 22
0 of 7
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:26
Control
1:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ebersole firstJeff Blatnick9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Mario Yamasaki
Brian EbersoleJames Head
Official totals — Brian Ebersole first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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, Brian Ebersole first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Head · 50%29-28 Ebersole · 30%29-28 Head · 10%30-28 Head · 10%

10 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.

Brian Ebersole

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.41 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.41 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
100%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

James Head

0.41takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Brian Ebersole↓ −0.7pp
open 75.5%close 74.8%
James Head↑ +0.7pp
open 24.5%close 25.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brian Ebersole opened at 75.5% and closed at 74.8% (−0.7pp), with James Head 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
Brian Ebersole-380-33075.5%74.8%−0.7pp
James Head29028724.5%25.2%+0.7pp
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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