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Events · UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber · Frankie Edgar vs Urijah Faber
From the tape · 16 May 2015

Frankie Edgar vs Urijah Faber

UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber · Manila, Philippines
Result

Frankie Edgar beat Urijah Faber

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Steve Perceval

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.

FE
Red corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
UF
Blue corner UrijahFaber“The California Kid”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
Featherweight5 rounds16 May 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
23-11-1
Record
35-11
−3 yr33
Age
36
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+617
UFC bouts
11
5/1242% of wins
Finishes
+33%6/875% of wins
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Toms River, New Jersey
From
Sacramento, California
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
Frankie Edgar16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 30BODY19%3 of 3LEGS50%8 of 11
Urijah Faber11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 22BODY27%3 of 5LEGS18%2 of 2
16 of 44
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:37
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Frankie Edgar16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 41BODY12%2 of 6LEGS38%6 of 7
Urijah Faber12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 33BODY17%2 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
16 of 54
Sig.
strikes
12 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Frankie Edgar16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 33BODY25%4 of 7LEGS31%5 of 5
Urijah Faber6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 16BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 45
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
3 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:03
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Frankie Edgar18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 42BODY22%4 of 6LEGS28%5 of 5
Urijah Faber9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 22BODY33%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 53
Sig.
strikes
9 of 28
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:36
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Frankie Edgar17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 51BODY12%2 of 7LEGS24%4 of 4
Urijah Faber10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 32BODY20%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 62
Sig.
strikes
10 of 35
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:28
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9

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 · Steve Perceval
Frankie EdgarUrijah Faber
Official totals — Frankie Edgar first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide50–45
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide50–45
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% wide50–45

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, Frankie Edgar first · unofficial

Patrick Wyman BloodyElbow.com50–45
John Pollock Fight Network50–45
Severe MMA.com50–45
Cage Pages.com50–45
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com50–45
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–45
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com50–45
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com50–45
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
Wrestling Observer50–45
Pundit Arena.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Edgar · 70%49-46 Edgar · 16%50-46 Edgar · 6%49-46 Faber · 4%50-45 Faber · 2%

50 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.

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.54 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.13 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
30%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Urijah Faber

1.54takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Frankie Edgar↑ +7.5pp
open 74.0%close 81.6%
Urijah Faber↓ −7.5pp
open 26.0%close 18.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frankie Edgar opened at 74.0% and closed at 81.6% (+7.5pp), with Urijah Faber 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
Frankie Edgar-380-55074.0%81.6%+7.5pp
Urijah Faber26042326.0%18.4%−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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