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History · 2014 · UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown · Robbie Lawler vs Matt Brown
From the tape · 26 Jul 2014

Robbie Lawler vs Matt Brown

UFC on FOX: Lawler vs Brown · San Jose, California, USA
Result

Robbie Lawler beat Matt Brown

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

RL
Red corner RobbieLawler“Ruthless”Kill Cliff FC · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
Welterweight5 rounds26 Jul 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 10 of 12 UFC wins.
30-16
Record
26-19
−1 yr32
Age
33
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+517
5/862% of wins
Finishes
+21%10/1283% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Immortal Fight Team
San Diego, California
From
Xenia, Ohio
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
Robbie Lawler20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 45BODY20%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 37BODY30%6 of 8LEGS10%2 of 5
20 of 49
Sig.
strikes
20 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:16
Control
0:31
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary9–10Wade Vierra10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Robbie Lawler9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 23BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 36BODY27%4 of 8LEGS13%2 of 9
9 of 25
Sig.
strikes
15 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:17
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Robbie Lawler17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 28BODY18%3 of 3LEGS18%3 of 3
Matt Brown11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 37BODY27%3 of 6LEGS27%3 of 4
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
11 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:22
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Robbie Lawler9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 18BODY17%1 of 2LEGS67%4 of 4
9 of 23
Sig.
strikes
6 of 24
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:21
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Wade Vierra10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Robbie Lawler25 sig landed
HEAD84%21 of 63BODY16%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown30 sig landed
HEAD60%18 of 54BODY40%12 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 69
Sig.
strikes
30 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lawler firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Wade Vierra10–9

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
Robbie LawlerMatt Brown
Official totals — Robbie Lawler first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell49–46
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% 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 — 16 scored, Robbie Lawler first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Cage Pages.com49–46
MM ABrasil.com.br49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com49–46
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com49–46
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com49–46
MM AWeekly.com49–46
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer49–46
Fight Metric.com49–46
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com48–47
Rob Tatum TheMMACorner.com48–47
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Lawler · 38%48-47 Brown · 32%48-47 Lawler · 22%49-47 Lawler · 2%

169 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.

Robbie Lawler

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.68 / 15m
1.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.65 / 15m
64%
ACCURACY
46%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 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.

Robbie Lawler↑ +7.4pp
open 66.9%close 74.3%
Matt Brown↓ −7.4pp
open 33.1%close 25.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Robbie Lawler opened at 66.9% and closed at 74.3% (+7.4pp), with Matt Brown 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
Robbie Lawler-260-32066.9%74.3%+7.4pp
Matt Brown18027933.1%25.7%−7.4pp
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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