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Events · UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson · George Sullivan vs Mike Rhodes
From the tape · 25 Jan 2014

George Sullivan vs Mike Rhodes

UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

George Sullivan beat Mike Rhodes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

GS
Red corner GeorgeSullivan“The Silencer”Pellegrino MMA · Belmar, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
MR
Blue corner MikeRhodes“Biggie”Roufusport · Waterloo, Iowa
Welterweight3 rounds25 Jan 2014
17-7
Record
10-5
32
Age
−8 yr24
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Pellegrino MMA
Gym
Roufusport
Belmar, New Jersey
From
Waterloo, Iowa
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 action1 sub attempt
George Sullivan12 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 27BODY17%2 of 4LEGS75%9 of 11
Mike Rhodes7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 15BODY29%2 of 3LEGS43%3 of 3
12 of 42
Sig.
strikes
7 of 21
2 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:52
Control
0:59
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sullivan firstSal D'Amato10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
George Sullivan16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 49BODY19%3 of 6LEGS38%6 of 9
Mike Rhodes23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 27BODY9%2 of 6LEGS26%6 of 6
16 of 64
Sig.
strikes
23 of 39
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:21
Control
0:41
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sullivan firstSal D'Amato9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
George Sullivan33 sig landed
HEAD64%21 of 52BODY15%5 of 10LEGS21%7 of 9
Mike Rhodes21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 29BODY24%5 of 9LEGS33%7 of 7
33 of 71
Sig.
strikes
21 of 45
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:27
Control
0:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sullivan firstSal D'Amato10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · John McCarthy
George SullivanMike Rhodes
Official totals — George Sullivan first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Gabriel Sabaitis29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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, George Sullivan first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sullivan · 61%29-28 Rhodes · 28%30-28 Sullivan · 6%30-27 Sullivan · 6%

18 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.

George Sullivan

1.37takedowns / 15 min
1.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.96 / 15m
6.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.91 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
33%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Mike Rhodes

0.96takedowns / 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.

George Sullivan↓ −4.5pp
open 32.6%close 28.1%
Mike Rhodes↑ +4.5pp
open 67.4%close 71.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

George Sullivan opened at 32.6% and closed at 28.1% (−4.5pp), with Mike Rhodes 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
George Sullivan18524532.6%28.1%−4.5pp
Mike Rhodes-265-28767.4%71.9%+4.5pp
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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