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Events · UFC 149: Faber vs Barao · Urijah Faber vs Renan Barao
From the tape · 21 Jul 2012

Urijah Faber vs Renan Barao

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

Renan Barao beat Urijah Faber

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

UF
Red corner UrijahFaber“The California Kid”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RenanBarao“The Baron”Pitbull Brothers · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
Interim Bantamweight Title5 rounds21 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Faber.
35-11
Record
34-9
33
Age
−8 yr25
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
+3″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Pitbull Brothers
Sacramento, California
From
Natal, Rio Grande do Norte
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Urijah Faber7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 21BODY14%1 of 3LEGS43%3 of 3
Renan Barao12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 32BODY17%2 of 6LEGS8%1 of 4
7 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstJeff Blatnick9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Urijah Faber12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 25BODY17%2 of 3LEGS25%3 of 4
Renan Barao22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 50BODY14%3 of 5LEGS27%6 of 10
12 of 32
Sig.
strikes
22 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstJeff Blatnick9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Urijah Faber19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 39BODY21%4 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
Renan Barao16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 56BODY6%1 of 4LEGS38%6 of 7
19 of 46
Sig.
strikes
16 of 67
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstJeff Blatnick9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Urijah Faber8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 27BODY12%1 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
Renan Barao21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 55BODY19%4 of 5LEGS24%5 of 6
8 of 32
Sig.
strikes
21 of 66
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstJeff Blatnick10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Urijah Faber14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 29BODY29%4 of 10LEGS14%2 of 2
Renan Barao14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 43BODY0%0 of 3LEGS14%2 of 4
14 of 41
Sig.
strikes
14 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Urijah FaberRenan Barao
Official totals — Urijah Faber first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide46–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–49
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide45–50

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Barão · 67%49-46 Barão · 16%48-47 Barão · 8%48-47 Faber · 4%49-47 Barão · 2%

51 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.

Urijah Faber

1.54takedowns / 15 min
1.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.49 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.63 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
41%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Renan Barao

1.49takedowns / 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.

Urijah Faber→ no move
open 39.8%close 39.6%
Renan Barao→ no move
open 60.2%close 60.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Urijah Faber opened at 39.8% and closed at 39.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Urijah Faber14014739.8%39.6%−0.3pp
Renan Barao-170-16260.2%60.4%+0.3pp
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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