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Events · Aaron Phillips vs Matt Hobar
From the tape · 23 Aug 2014

Aaron Phillips vs Matt Hobar

Result

Matt Hobar beat Aaron Phillips

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Nix

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.

AP
Red corner AaronPhillips“The Dragon”Headkicks MMA · Lafayette, Louisiana
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MattHobar“The Crowbar”Octagon MMA · Dallas, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds23 Aug 2014
The story going in
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Hobar.
  • Averages 2.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Phillips.
12-5
Record
9-3
−2 yr25
Age
27
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
1
Headkicks MMA
Gym
Octagon MMA
Lafayette, Louisiana
From
Dallas, Texas
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
Aaron Phillips9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 13BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
Matt Hobar21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 27BODY19%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
21 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:26
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 15
Judges · this round · Phillips firstDerek Cleary10–9Bobby Higdon10–9Jim Lambert9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Aaron Phillips22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 19BODY32%7 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Matt Hobar27 sig landed
HEAD78%21 of 33BODY11%3 of 6LEGS11%3 of 3
22 of 27
Sig.
strikes
27 of 42
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
3:51
Distance 11Clinch 10Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 10Ground 13
Judges · this round · Phillips firstDerek Cleary9–10Bobby Higdon9–10Jim Lambert10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Phillips7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 7BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Hobar15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 25BODY7%1 of 1LEGS7%1 of 1
7 of 11
Sig.
strikes
15 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:00
Control
4:37
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 6Ground 8
Judges · this round · Phillips firstDerek Cleary9–10Bobby Higdon9–10Jim Lambert9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Kevin Nix
Aaron PhillipsMatt Hobar
Official totals — Aaron Phillips first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Bobby Higdon28–29
Jim Lambert28–29

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, Aaron Phillips first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com27–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Callum Leslie MMASucka.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Thomas Myers SBNation.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hobar · 68%29-28 Hobar · 21%30-28 Hobar · 5%

19 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.

Aaron Phillips

0.86takedowns / 15 min
0.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.66 / 15m
1.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.32 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
44%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Matt Hobar

3.66takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Aaron Phillips↑ +5.1pp
open 34.7%close 39.8%
Matt Hobar↓ −5.1pp
open 65.3%close 60.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Phillips opened at 34.7% and closed at 39.8% (+5.1pp), with Matt Hobar 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
Aaron Phillips17014534.7%39.8%+5.1pp
Matt Hobar-230-16265.3%60.2%−5.1pp
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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