This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
Events · UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson · Phil Davis vs Ryan Bader
From the tape · 24 Jan 2015

Phil Davis vs Ryan Bader

UFC on FOX: Gustafsson vs Johnson · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Ryan Bader beat Phil Davis

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

PD
Red corner PhilDavis“Mr. Wonderful”Alliance MMA · Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RyanBader“Darth”Power MMA Team · Tempe, Arizona
Light Heavyweight3 rounds24 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
17-4
Record
23-5
−1 yr30
Age
31
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
+5″79″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+315
3/933% of wins
Finishes
+3%4/1136% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Power MMA Team
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
From
Tempe, Arizona
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
Phil Davis9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 31BODY33%3 of 5LEGS22%2 of 4
Ryan Bader5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 34BODY0%0 of 4LEGS40%2 of 4
9 of 40
Sig.
strikes
5 of 42
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Davis firstMark Collett10–9Mans Nilsson9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Phil Davis7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 20BODY71%5 of 12LEGS0%0 of 1
Ryan Bader6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 21BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
7 of 33
Sig.
strikes
6 of 23
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:25
Control
0:19
Distance 3Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Davis firstMark Collett10–9Mans Nilsson10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Phil Davis19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 35BODY37%7 of 11LEGS37%7 of 10
Ryan Bader15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 47BODY20%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 56
Sig.
strikes
15 of 52
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:03
Control
0:26
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Davis firstMark Collett9–10Mans Nilsson9–10Andy Roberts9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Phil DavisRyan Bader
Official totals — Phil Davis first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Mans Nilsson28–29
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, Phil Davis first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bader · 42%29-28 Davis · 37%30-27 Davis · 6%30-28 Davis · 4%

147 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.

Phil Davis

2.99takedowns / 15 min
2.99 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.37 / 15m
7.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.66 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
44%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Ryan Bader

3.37takedowns / 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.

Phil Davis→ no move
open 64.4%close 64.3%
Ryan Bader→ no move
open 35.6%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Phil Davis opened at 64.4% and closed at 64.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Phil Davis-215-19564.4%64.3%−0.1pp
Ryan Bader16517235.6%35.7%+0.1pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record