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Events · UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera · Joe Lauzon vs Jamie Varner
From the tape · 4 Aug 2012

Joe Lauzon vs Jamie Varner

UFC on FOX: Shogun vs Vera · Los Angeles, California, USA
Result

Joe Lauzon beat Jamie Varner

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:44
LightweightMain cardReferee · Luis Cobian

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.

JL
Red corner JoeLauzonLauzon MMA · Bridgewater, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
JV
Blue corner JamieVarnerPhoenix, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds4 Aug 2012
The story going in
  • Every one of Lauzon’s 8 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Varner.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lauzon.
28-16
Record
21-11-1
28
Age
−1 yr27
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+912
UFC bouts
3
8/8100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Varner
Joe Lauzon17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 48BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jamie Varner35 sig landed
HEAD54%19 of 61BODY43%15 of 19LEGS3%1 of 1
17 of 49
Sig.
strikes
35 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:43
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 2
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Joe Lauzon18 sig landed
HEAD94%17 of 47BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Jamie Varner30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 51BODY27%8 of 9LEGS7%2 of 4
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
30 of 64
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:01
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 32:44 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:44
Joe Lauzon9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Jamie Varner17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 29BODY18%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 21
Sig.
strikes
17 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:08
Control
0:51
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Joe Lauzon

Round
3
Clock
2:44
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Luis Cobian.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Joe Lauzon

2.39takedowns / 15 min
2.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.49 / 15m
5.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.58 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
53%
2.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Jamie Varner

3.49takedowns / 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 (5.22 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.

Joe Lauzon↓ −3.6pp
open 55.8%close 52.1%
Jamie Varner↑ +3.6pp
open 44.2%close 47.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joe Lauzon opened at 55.8% and closed at 52.1% (−3.6pp), with Jamie Varner 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
Joe Lauzon-150-11755.8%52.1%−3.6pp
Jamie Varner11010244.2%47.9%+3.6pp
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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