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History · 2012 · UFC on FX: Sotiropoulos vs Pearson · Mike Pierce vs Seth Baczynski
From the tape · 14 Dec 2012

Mike Pierce vs Seth Baczynski

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

Mike Pierce beat Seth Baczynski

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

MP
Red corner MikePierceSports Lab · Portland, Oregon
VSOn the tape
SB
Blue corner SethBaczynski“The Polish Pistola”Power MMA Team · Apache Junction, Arizona
Welterweight3 rounds14 Dec 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
17-7
Record
20-14
32
Age
−1 yr31
5' 8"
Height
+7″6' 3"
71″
Reach
+4″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+510
UFC bouts
5
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+32%3/475% of wins
Sports Lab
Gym
Power MMA Team
Portland, Oregon
From
Apache Junction, 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 — 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
Mike Pierce2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Seth Baczynski2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 9
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:56
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstAnthony Dimitriou10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Mike Pierce8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Seth Baczynski10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 30BODY20%2 of 3LEGS20%2 of 2
8 of 15
Sig.
strikes
10 of 35
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:57
Control
0:12
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstAnthony Dimitriou10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mike Pierce6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Seth Baczynski22 sig landed
HEAD82%18 of 58BODY14%3 of 3LEGS5%1 of 1
6 of 27
Sig.
strikes
22 of 62
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:09
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pierce firstAnthony Dimitriou10–9

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 Goddard
Mike PierceSeth Baczynski
Official totals — Mike Pierce first
JudgeTotal
Anthony Dimitriou2.4 avg spread · 53% wide30–27

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 — 9 scored, Mike Pierce first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pierce · 56%29-28 Pierce · 44%

9 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.

Mike Pierce

3.08takedowns / 15 min
3.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.89 / 15m
7.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.56 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
16%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Seth Baczynski

0.89takedowns / 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.

Mike Pierce↑ +8.2pp
open 69.7%close 78.0%
Seth Baczynski↓ −8.2pp
open 30.3%close 22.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mike Pierce opened at 69.7% and closed at 78.0% (+8.2pp), with Seth Baczynski 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
Mike Pierce-290-40069.7%78.0%+8.2pp
Seth Baczynski21034230.3%22.0%−8.2pp
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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