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Events · UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit · Sam Stout vs John Makdessi
From the tape · 17 Nov 2012

Sam Stout vs John Makdessi

UFC 154: St-Pierre vs Condit · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Result

John Makdessi beat Sam Stout

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc-Andre Cote

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.

SS
Red corner SamStout“Hands of Stone”London, Ontario
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JohnMakdessi“The Bull”Tristar Gym · Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lightweight3 rounds17 Nov 2012
The story going in
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Makdessi.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 21 points more accurate striking than Stout.
20-12-1
Record
18-9
28
Age
−1 yr27
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+913
UFC bouts
4
1/714% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
London, Ontario
From
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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
Sam Stout21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 103BODY33%7 of 12LEGS24%5 of 5
John Makdessi24 sig landed
HEAD79%19 of 36BODY12%3 of 7LEGS8%2 of 4
21 of 120
Sig.
strikes
24 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstSal D'Amato9–10Benoit Roussel9–10David Therien9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sam Stout26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 105BODY23%6 of 11LEGS27%7 of 7
John Makdessi29 sig landed
HEAD76%22 of 45BODY14%4 of 8LEGS10%3 of 3
26 of 123
Sig.
strikes
29 of 56
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstSal D'Amato9–10Benoit Roussel10–9David Therien9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sam Stout16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 110BODY19%3 of 10LEGS25%4 of 6
John Makdessi31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 44BODY6%2 of 5LEGS13%4 of 5
16 of 126
Sig.
strikes
31 of 54
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stout firstSal D'Amato9–10Benoit Roussel9–10David Therien9–10

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 · Marc-Andre Cote
Sam StoutJohn Makdessi
Official totals — Sam Stout first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Benoit Roussel28–29
David Therien2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 10 scored, Sam Stout first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com27–30
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com27–30
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com27–30
MM AWeekly.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Adam Martin27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Makdessi · 73%29-28 Makdessi · 27%

15 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.

Sam Stout

0.63takedowns / 15 min
0.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
38%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

John Makdessi

0.00takedowns / 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.

Sam Stout→ no move
open 65.3%close 65.5%
John Makdessi→ no move
open 34.7%close 34.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Sam Stout opened at 65.3% and closed at 65.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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
Sam Stout-230-20565.3%65.5%+0.2pp
John Makdessi17018234.7%34.5%−0.2pp
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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