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Events · UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar · Yves Edwards vs Isaac Vallie-Flagg
From the tape · 2 Feb 2013

Yves Edwards vs Isaac Vallie-Flagg

UFC 156: Aldo vs Edgar · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Isaac Vallie-Flagg beat Yves Edwards

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

YE
Red corner YvesEdwardsAmerican Top Team · Woodlands, Texas
VSOn the tape
IV
Blue corner IsaacVallie-FlaggJackson-Wink MMA · Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lightweight3 rounds2 Feb 2013
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Lands 2.6 more significant strikes a minute than Edwards.
  • Carries 21 points more striking defence than Vallie-Flagg.
42-22-1
Record
16-7-1
36
Age
−2 yr34
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Woodlands, Texas
From
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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
Yves Edwards24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 32BODY25%6 of 8LEGS29%7 of 8
Isaac Vallie-Flagg29 sig landed
HEAD55%16 of 60BODY34%10 of 13LEGS10%3 of 4
24 of 48
Sig.
strikes
29 of 77
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:22
Distance 19Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Mark Smith9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Yves Edwards11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 15BODY27%3 of 3LEGS18%2 of 2
Isaac Vallie-Flagg6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 25BODY0%0 of 3LEGS33%2 of 3
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
6 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:43
Control
0:38
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Patricia Morse Jarman10–9Mark Smith10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Yves Edwards23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 35BODY22%5 of 9LEGS13%3 of 3
Isaac Vallie-Flagg41 sig landed
HEAD66%27 of 95BODY20%8 of 11LEGS15%6 of 8
23 of 47
Sig.
strikes
41 of 114
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:14
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edwards firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Patricia Morse Jarman9–10Mark Smith9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Yves EdwardsIsaac Vallie-Flagg
Official totals — Yves Edwards first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Patricia Morse Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% wide28–29

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 — 12 scored, Yves Edwards first · unofficial

Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vallie-Flagg · 72%29-28 Edwards · 24%

25 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.

Yves Edwards

0.76takedowns / 15 min
0.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.20 / 15m
1.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.67 / 15m
53%
ACCURACY
12%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Isaac Vallie-Flagg

0.20takedowns / 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.

Yves Edwards→ no move
open 66.9%close 66.7%
Isaac Vallie-Flagg→ no move
open 33.1%close 33.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Yves Edwards opened at 66.9% and closed at 66.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp 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
Yves Edwards-245-21766.9%66.7%−0.3pp
Isaac Vallie-Flagg18519233.1%33.3%+0.3pp
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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