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History · 2014 · UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Sam Sicilia vs Aaron Phillips
From the tape · 24 May 2014

Sam Sicilia vs Aaron Phillips

UFC 173: Barao vs Dillashaw · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Sam Sicilia beat Aaron Phillips

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

SS
Red corner SamSiciliaSikjitsu · Spokane, Washington
VSOn the tape
AP
Blue corner AaronPhillips“The Dragon”Headkicks MMA · Lafayette, Louisiana
Featherweight3 rounds24 May 2014
The story going in
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Phillips.
  • Is 20 points more accurate striking than Sicilia.
15-8
Record
12-5
28
Age
−4 yr24
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
67″
Reach
+4″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Sikjitsu
Gym
Headkicks MMA
Spokane, Washington
From
Lafayette, Louisiana
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
Sam Sicilia16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 27BODY25%4 of 7LEGS6%1 of 2
Aaron Phillips9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY67%6 of 8LEGS11%1 of 3
16 of 36
Sig.
strikes
9 of 27
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:14
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sicilia firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Derek Cleary10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Sam Sicilia8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Aaron Phillips7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 4BODY71%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
7 of 9
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:31
Control
1:05
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Sicilia firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Sam Sicilia13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 14BODY31%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Aaron Phillips2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 20
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:27
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sicilia firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Derek Cleary10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Sam SiciliaAaron Phillips
Official totals — Sam Sicilia first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% 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 — 13 scored, Sam Sicilia first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
John Pollock The Fight Network29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Sicilia · 60%29-28 Sicilia · 40%

10 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.

Sam Sicilia

1.45takedowns / 15 min
1.45 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.86 / 15m
3.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.72 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
50%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Aaron Phillips

0.86takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Sam Sicilia↓ −0.7pp
open 58.3%close 57.6%
Aaron Phillips↑ +0.7pp
open 41.7%close 42.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sam Sicilia opened at 58.3% and closed at 57.6% (−0.7pp), with Aaron Phillips 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
Sam Sicilia-165-14558.3%57.6%−0.7pp
Aaron Phillips12513041.7%42.4%+0.7pp
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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