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History · 2014 · Cub Swanson vs Jeremy Stephens
From the tape · 28 Jun 2014

Cub Swanson vs Jeremy Stephens

Result

Cub Swanson beat Jeremy Stephens

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner CubSwansonUFC Gym Costa Mesa · Palm Springs, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
Featherweight5 rounds28 Jun 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
31-14
Record
29-23
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+1218
+30%4/580% of wins
Finishes
5/1050% of wins
UFC Gym Costa Mesa
Gym
Alliance MMA
Palm Springs, California
From
Des Moines, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Cub Swanson16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 25BODY12%2 of 6LEGS44%7 of 8
Jeremy Stephens7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 25BODY0%0 of 1LEGS43%3 of 8
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
7 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:33
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Cub Swanson8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 24BODY25%2 of 2LEGS38%3 of 5
Jeremy Stephens18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 30BODY39%7 of 8LEGS33%6 of 7
8 of 31
Sig.
strikes
18 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:28
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Cub Swanson21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 38BODY14%3 of 5LEGS10%2 of 2
Jeremy Stephens9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 25BODY11%1 of 1LEGS44%4 of 4
21 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:02
Control
1:13
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Cub Swanson15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS40%6 of 9
Jeremy Stephens11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 35BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 3
15 of 30
Sig.
strikes
11 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:12
Control
0:59
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato9–10Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cub Swanson27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 64BODY7%2 of 3LEGS11%3 of 7
Jeremy Stephens20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 75BODY0%0 of 3LEGS10%2 of 3
27 of 74
Sig.
strikes
20 of 81
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstSal D'Amato10–9Gino Garcia10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Cub SwansonJeremy Stephens
Official totals — Cub Swanson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Gino Garcia49–46
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide49–46

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 — 11 scored, Cub Swanson first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br49–46
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com49–46
John Pollock Fight Network49–46
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com49–46
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Brent Brookhouse SBNation.com49–46
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com49–46
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com49–46
Luca Fury Sherdog.com49–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Swanson · 56%48-47 Swanson · 25%48-47 Stephens · 6%49-47 Swanson · 4%

52 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.

Cub Swanson

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.10 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.89 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
38%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 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.

Cub Swanson↑ +4.9pp
open 62.1%close 67.0%
Jeremy Stephens↓ −4.9pp
open 37.9%close 33.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cub Swanson opened at 62.1% and closed at 67.0% (+4.9pp), with Jeremy Stephens 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
Cub Swanson-190-22262.1%67.0%+4.9pp
Jeremy Stephens15019537.9%33.0%−4.9pp
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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