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Events · UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos · Anthony Pettis vs Rafael Dos Anjos
From the tape · 14 Mar 2015

Anthony Pettis vs Rafael Dos Anjos

UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Rafael Dos Anjos beat Anthony Pettis

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Lightweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

AP
Red corner AnthonyPettis“Showtime”Roufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Rafael DosAnjosRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Lightweight Title5 rounds14 Mar 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
24-10
Record
32-17
−2 yr28
Age
30
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
6
UFC bouts
+1117
+38%4/580% of wins
Finishes
5/1242% of wins
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
From
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Anthony Pettis19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 54BODY16%3 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
Rafael Dos Anjos24 sig landed
HEAD38%9 of 46BODY58%14 of 19LEGS4%1 of 1
19 of 60
Sig.
strikes
24 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:57
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dan Mathisen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Pettis7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 18BODY43%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Dos Anjos21 sig landed
HEAD76%16 of 25BODY5%1 of 2LEGS19%4 of 4
7 of 22
Sig.
strikes
21 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
3:56
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 13
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dan Mathisen9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Anthony Pettis8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 30BODY0%0 of 1LEGS12%1 of 1
Rafael Dos Anjos21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 20BODY29%6 of 7LEGS33%7 of 7
8 of 32
Sig.
strikes
21 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:00
Control
3:05
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dan Mathisen9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Anthony Pettis9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 18BODY33%3 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
Rafael Dos Anjos10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 9BODY30%3 of 4LEGS30%3 of 4
9 of 22
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:51
Control
3:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dan Mathisen9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Anthony Pettis11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 21BODY18%2 of 3LEGS18%2 of 2
Rafael Dos Anjos14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 13BODY21%3 of 5LEGS29%4 of 5
11 of 26
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:46
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Pettis firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dan Mathisen9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Anthony PettisRafael Dos Anjos
Official totals — Anthony Pettis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide45–50
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide45–50
Dan Mathisen45–50

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 dos Anjos · 52%50-44 dos Anjos · 24%50-43 dos Anjos · 8%50-42 dos Anjos · 5%50-45 Pettis · 3%

130 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.

Anthony Pettis

0.61takedowns / 15 min
0.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.95 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.57 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
35%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Rafael Dos Anjos

1.95takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Anthony Pettis↑ +7.5pp
open 73.1%close 80.6%
Rafael Dos Anjos↓ −7.5pp
open 26.9%close 19.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Pettis opened at 73.1% and closed at 80.6% (+7.5pp), with Rafael Dos Anjos 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
Anthony Pettis-350-48373.1%80.6%+7.5pp
Rafael Dos Anjos25040226.9%19.4%−7.5pp
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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