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History · 2015 · UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Brad Tavares vs Nate Marquardt
From the tape · 3 Jan 2015

Brad Tavares vs Nate Marquardt

UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brad Tavares beat Nate Marquardt

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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 BradTavaresKailua, Hawaii
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NateMarquardt“The Great”High Altitude Martial Arts · Aurora, Colorado
Middleweight3 rounds3 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Tavares.
21-13
Record
35-19-2
−8 yr27
Age
35
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+717
1/714% of wins
Finishes
+49%7/1164% of wins
Kailua, Hawaii
From
Aurora, Colorado
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
Brad Tavares12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 29BODY25%3 of 3LEGS25%3 of 4
Nate Marquardt10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 13BODY10%1 of 2LEGS50%5 of 7
12 of 36
Sig.
strikes
10 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Tavares14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 21BODY7%1 of 1LEGS29%4 of 7
Nate Marquardt6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%3 of 6
14 of 29
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:27
Control
0:45
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brad Tavares24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 41BODY12%3 of 6LEGS21%5 of 7
Nate Marquardt14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 19BODY36%5 of 5LEGS14%2 of 4
24 of 54
Sig.
strikes
14 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:02
Control
0:42
Distance 20Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Cardo Urso10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Brad TavaresNate Marquardt
Official totals — Brad Tavares first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Cardo Urso2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 14 scored, Brad Tavares first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Tavares · 68%29-28 Tavares · 10%30-26 Tavares · 10%30-28 Tavares · 5%30-27 Marquardt · 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.

Brad Tavares

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.87 / 15m
2.69 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.67 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
51%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Nate Marquardt

1.87takedowns / 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.

Brad Tavares↑ +4.3pp
open 50.0%close 54.3%
Nate Marquardt↓ −4.3pp
open 50.0%close 45.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Tavares opened at 50.0% and closed at 54.3% (+4.3pp), with Nate Marquardt 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
Brad Tavares-120-12750.0%54.3%+4.3pp
Nate Marquardt-12011250.0%45.7%−4.3pp
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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