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Events · UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Thatch · Efrain Escudero vs Rodrigo de Lima
From the tape · 14 Feb 2015

Efrain Escudero vs Rodrigo de Lima

UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Thatch · Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Result

Efrain Escudero beat Rodrigo de Lima

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Don Thais

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.

EE
Red corner EfrainEscudero“Hecho En Mexico”MMA Lab · Tempe, Arizona
VSOn the tape
RL
Blue corner Rodrigo deLima“Monstro”
Lightweight3 rounds14 Feb 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Escudero.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Lima.
28-12
Record
8-3-1
29
Age
−6 yr23
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+78
UFC bouts
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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⚡ 1 KD Escudero
Efrain Escudero20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 24BODY10%2 of 2LEGS20%4 of 4
Rodrigo de Lima11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 19BODY27%3 of 3LEGS36%4 of 6
20 of 30
Sig.
strikes
11 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:15
Control
2:28
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Escudero firstHale Hilsabeck10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Mark Van Tine10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Efrain Escudero43 sig landed
HEAD72%31 of 47BODY23%10 of 11LEGS5%2 of 2
Rodrigo de Lima8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 25BODY25%2 of 2LEGS12%1 of 1
43 of 60
Sig.
strikes
8 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
2:24
Control
1:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 20
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Escudero firstHale Hilsabeck10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Mark Van Tine10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Efrain Escudero31 sig landed
HEAD94%29 of 37BODY6%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Rodrigo de Lima5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 15BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
31 of 39
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:32
Control
0:14
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Escudero firstHale Hilsabeck10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Mark Van Tine10–9

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 · Don Thais
Efrain EscuderoRodrigo de Lima
Official totals — Efrain Escudero first
JudgeTotal
Hale Hilsabeck30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Mark Van Tine30–27

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 — 12 scored, Efrain Escudero first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–25
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–26
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Wrestling Observer30–26
Severe MMA.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Escudero · 58%30-26 Escudero · 17%29-28 Escudero · 8%30-27 de Lima · 8%30-25 Escudero · 8%

12 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.

Efrain Escudero

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.66 / 15m
3.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.39 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
36%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Rodrigo de Lima

2.66takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Efrain Escudero vs Rodrigo de Lima.

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