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Events · UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Glover Teixeira vs Phil Davis
From the tape · 25 Oct 2014

Glover Teixeira vs Phil Davis

UFC 179: Aldo vs Mendes 2 · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Phil Davis beat Glover Teixeira

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

GT
Red corner GloverTeixeiraTeixeira MMA & Fitness · Sobralia, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
PD
Blue corner PhilDavis“Mr. Wonderful”Alliance MMA · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Light Heavyweight3 rounds25 Oct 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Is 15 points more accurate striking than Davis.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Teixeira.
33-9
Record
17-4
34
Age
−4 yr30
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
76″
Reach
+3″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+511
+42%4/580% of wins
Finishes
3/838% of wins
Teixeira MMA & Fitness
Gym
Alliance MMA
Sobralia, Minas Gerais
From
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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
Glover Teixeira2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 14BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 51BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 16
Sig.
strikes
20 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:01
Control
2:29
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 13
Judges · this round · Teixeira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Glover Teixeira4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 15BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 55BODY20%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 17
Sig.
strikes
15 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:14
Control
1:50
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Teixeira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Glover Teixeira3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Phil Davis14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 24BODY43%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 13
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 8
0:01
Control
3:47
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 13
Judges · this round · Teixeira firstMarco Aurelio Borges9–10Guilherme Bravo9–10Eric Colón9–10

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 · Mario Yamasaki
Glover TeixeiraPhil Davis
Official totals — Glover Teixeira first
JudgeTotal
Marco Aurelio Borges27–30
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30

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, Glover Teixeira first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com27–30
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Davis · 71%30-27 Teixeira · 9%30-24 Davis · 9%30-26 Davis · 6%

35 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.

Glover Teixeira

2.11takedowns / 15 min
2.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.99 / 15m
6.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.87 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
38%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Phil Davis

2.99takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Glover Teixeira↓ −2.3pp
open 69.3%close 67.0%
Phil Davis↑ +2.3pp
open 30.7%close 33.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Glover Teixeira opened at 69.3% and closed at 67.0% (−2.3pp), with Phil Davis 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
Glover Teixeira-285-22269.3%67.0%−2.3pp
Phil Davis20519530.7%33.0%+2.3pp
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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