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History · 2014 · UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II · Eddie Gordon vs Josh Samman
From the tape · 6 Dec 2014

Eddie Gordon vs Josh Samman

UFC 181: Hendricks vs Lawler II · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Josh Samman beat Eddie Gordon

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:08
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

EG
Red corner EddieGordon“Truck”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Freeport, New York
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner JoshSamman“Anqa”MMA Masters · Tallahassee, Florida
Middleweight3 rounds6 Dec 2014
The story going in
  • Carries 26 points more striking defence than Samman.
  • Is 20 points more accurate striking than Gordon.
8-4
Record
13-4
31
Age
−5 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+3″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
MMA Masters
Freeport, New York
From
Tallahassee, Florida
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Eddie Gordon5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Josh Samman7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 6BODY43%3 of 6LEGS29%2 of 2
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
7 of 14
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:55
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 23:08 of action⚡ 1 KD SammanEnded 3:08
Eddie Gordon3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Josh Samman4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:37
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Josh Samman

Round
2
Clock
3:08
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Eddie Gordon

1.93takedowns / 15 min
1.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
2.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.30 / 15m
83%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Josh Samman

1.09takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Eddie Gordon↓ −2.0pp
open 59.2%close 57.1%
Josh Samman↑ +2.0pp
open 40.8%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eddie Gordon opened at 59.2% and closed at 57.1% (−2.0pp), with Josh Samman 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
Eddie Gordon-170-14259.2%57.1%−2.0pp
Josh Samman13012740.8%42.9%+2.0pp
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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