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History · 2012 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale · Colton Smith vs Mike Ricci
From the tape · 15 Dec 2012

Colton Smith vs Mike Ricci

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Colton Smith beat Mike Ricci

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Ultimate Fighter 16 Welterweight Tournament TitleCo-MainReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

CS
Red corner ColtonSmithVanguard · Manassas, Virginia
VSOn the tape
MR
Blue corner MikeRicci“The Martian”Tristar Gym · Montreal, Quebec
Ultimate Fighter 16 Welterweight Tournament Title3 rounds15 Dec 2012
The story going in
  • Averages 3.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ricci.
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Smith.
7-4
Record
11-5
−1 yr25
Age
26
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
71″
Reach
+5″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Vanguard
Gym
Tristar Gym
Manassas, Virginia
From
Montreal, Quebec
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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
Colton Smith4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%4 of 4
Mike Ricci5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 5
Sig.
strikes
5 of 8
4 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:41
Control
0:06
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Colton Smith5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS80%4 of 4
Mike Ricci2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:29
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Colton Smith6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 3BODY17%1 of 1LEGS50%3 of 3
Mike Ricci2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY50%1 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:15
Control
0:25
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Colton Smith first
JudgeTotal
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–26

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Colton Smith

4.09takedowns / 15 min
4.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
11.36 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.67 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
100%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Mike Ricci

0.67takedowns / 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.

Colton Smith↓ −6.2pp
open 33.1%close 26.9%
Mike Ricci↑ +6.2pp
open 66.9%close 73.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Colton Smith opened at 33.1% and closed at 26.9% (−6.2pp), with Mike Ricci 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
Colton Smith18526233.1%26.9%−6.2pp
Mike Ricci-245-30266.9%73.1%+6.2pp
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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