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Events · UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson · Hector Lombard vs Rousimar Palhares
From the tape · 14 Dec 2012

Hector Lombard vs Rousimar Palhares

UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson · Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Result

Hector Lombard beat Rousimar Palhares

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
3:38
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

HL
Red corner HectorLombardUFD Gym · Matanzas
VSOn the tape
RP
Blue corner RousimarPalhares“Toquinho”Team Nogueira · Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
Middleweight3 rounds14 Dec 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 77 points more takedown defence than Palhares.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Lombard.
34-10-1
Record
19-8
34
Age
−2 yr32
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+910
UFD Gym
Gym
Team Nogueira
Matanzas
From
Dores do Indaia, Minas Gerais
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

1 round of tape

Round 13:38 of action⚡ 2 KD LombardEnded 3:38
Hector Lombard24 sig landed
HEAD96%23 of 43BODY4%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Rousimar Palhares6 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY33%2 of 2LEGS67%4 of 5
24 of 46
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:45
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 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

Hector Lombard

Round
1
Clock
3:38
Method
KO/TKO

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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Hector Lombard

1.69takedowns / 15 min
1.69 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.93 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.73 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
45%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
4.10 / 15m

Rousimar Palhares

3.93takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Hector Lombard↑ +1.4pp
open 66.1%close 67.5%
Rousimar Palhares↓ −1.4pp
open 33.9%close 32.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Hector Lombard opened at 66.1% and closed at 67.5% (+1.4pp), with Rousimar Palhares 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
Hector Lombard-245-22566.1%67.5%+1.4pp
Rousimar Palhares17520033.9%32.5%−1.4pp
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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