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History · 2015 · UFC 185: Pettis vs Dos Anjos · Johny Hendricks vs Matt Brown
From the tape · 14 Mar 2015

Johny Hendricks vs Matt Brown

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

Johny Hendricks beat Matt Brown

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

JH
Red corner JohnyHendricks“Bigg Rigg”Team Takedown · Ada, Oklahoma
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
Welterweight3 rounds14 Mar 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 10 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brown.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Hendricks.
18-8
Record
26-19
−3 yr31
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
69″
Reach
+6″75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+418
5/1145% of wins
Finishes
+38%10/1283% of wins
Team Takedown
Gym
Immortal Fight Team
Ada, Oklahoma
From
Xenia, Ohio
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
Johny Hendricks10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 14BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Matt Brown11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 16BODY45%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 16
Sig.
strikes
11 of 21
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:46
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Johny Hendricks21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 36BODY14%3 of 3LEGS14%3 of 3
Matt Brown7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 42
Sig.
strikes
7 of 16
4 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:21
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Johny Hendricks5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
Matt Brown5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 10BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:01
Control
0:21
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Hendricks firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Johny HendricksMatt Brown
Official totals — Johny Hendricks first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% 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 — 15 scored, Johny Hendricks first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Severe MMA.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Wrestling Observer30–27
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Hendricks · 76%29-28 Hendricks · 15%30-26 Hendricks · 7%30-24 Brown · 2%

41 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.

Johny Hendricks

3.83takedowns / 15 min
3.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.68 / 15m
8.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.65 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
46%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Johny Hendricks↑ +8.4pp
open 67.9%close 76.3%
Matt Brown↓ −8.4pp
open 32.1%close 23.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Johny Hendricks opened at 67.9% and closed at 76.3% (+8.4pp), with Matt Brown 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
Johny Hendricks-270-36567.9%76.3%+8.4pp
Matt Brown19031132.1%23.7%−8.4pp
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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