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Events · UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II · Junior Dos Santos vs Cain Velasquez
From the tape · 29 Dec 2012

Junior Dos Santos vs Cain Velasquez

UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Cain Velasquez beat Junior Dos Santos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

JS
Red corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
CV
Blue corner CainVelasquezAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Salinas, California
Heavyweight Title5 rounds29 Dec 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Averages 4.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Santos.
21-9
Record
14-3
−2 yr28
Age
30
+3″6' 4"
Height
6' 1"
77″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
9
7/978% of wins
Finishes
+10%7/888% of wins
Cacador, Santa Catarina
From
Salinas, California
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Velasquez
Junior Dos Santos17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 34BODY29%5 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Cain Velasquez42 sig landed
HEAD83%35 of 81BODY12%5 of 5LEGS5%2 of 2
17 of 43
Sig.
strikes
42 of 88
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 9
0:00
Control
1:44
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 20
Judges · this round · Santos firstMarcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge8–10Tony Weeks8–10
Round 25:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 7BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Cain Velasquez24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 31BODY25%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 8
Sig.
strikes
24 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 5
0:28
Control
3:49
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 10Ground 10
Judges · this round · Santos firstMarcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge8–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 19BODY54%7 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
Cain Velasquez22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 34BODY36%8 of 9LEGS5%1 of 1
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
22 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:10
Control
2:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 17Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstMarcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 26BODY50%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Cain Velasquez10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 24BODY30%3 of 3LEGS10%1 of 1
12 of 34
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:21
Control
2:26
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstMarcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Junior Dos Santos13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 16BODY46%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Cain Velasquez13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 23BODY23%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 8
0:05
Control
3:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 7
Judges · this round · Santos firstMarcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Junior Dos SantosCain Velasquez
Official totals — Junior Dos Santos first
JudgeTotal
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide45–50
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide43–50
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide44–50

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, Junior Dos Santos first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com43–50
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca44–50
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com44–50
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com44–50
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com44–50
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com44–50
MM AJunkie.com44–50
MM AWeekly.com44–50
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com45–50
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com45–50

Fan vote · unofficial

50-43 Velasquez · 41%50-44 Velasquez · 36%50-42 Velasquez · 10%50-45 Velasquez · 3%50-41 Velasquez · 3%

147 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.

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 15 min
0.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.13 / 15m
0.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.40 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
45%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Cain Velasquez

5.13takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Junior Dos Santos↑ +9.6pp
open 55.3%close 64.9%
Cain Velasquez↓ −9.6pp
open 44.7%close 35.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Junior Dos Santos opened at 55.3% and closed at 64.9% (+9.6pp), with Cain Velasquez 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
Junior Dos Santos-135-20055.3%64.9%+9.6pp
Cain Velasquez11517744.7%35.1%−9.6pp
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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