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Events · UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites · Ross Pearson vs Evan Dunham
From the tape · 18 Jul 2015

Ross Pearson vs Evan Dunham

UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs Leites · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Result

Evan Dunham beat Ross Pearson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

RP
Red corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
ED
Blue corner EvanDunhamXtreme Couture · Eugene, Oregon
Lightweight3 rounds18 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Pearson.
20-16
Record
18-9-1
−3 yr30
Age
33
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+115
UFC bouts
14
+18%5/956% of wins
Finishes
3/838% of wins
Central Coast MMA
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
From
Eugene, Oregon
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 action1 sub attempt
Ross Pearson3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Evan Dunham5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 12BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
5 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:09
Control
3:09
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAndy Haigh9–10Garth Harriman9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ross Pearson3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 3BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Evan Dunham14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS43%6 of 7
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
14 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
4:38
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 6Ground 8
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAndy Haigh9–10Garth Harriman9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 10BODY40%4 of 6LEGS10%1 of 1
Evan Dunham7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 17
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:00
Control
3:14
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pearson firstAndy Haigh9–10Garth Harriman9–10Andy Roberts10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Ross PearsonEvan Dunham
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Andy Haigh27–30
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
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 — 17 scored, Ross Pearson first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Wrestling Observer27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Danny Segura dannysegura.tv27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Pundit Arena.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Cage Pages.com27–30
Severe MMA.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Dunham · 67%30-26 Dunham · 11%30-28 Dunham · 11%29-28 Dunham · 11%

9 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.

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.82 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.52 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Evan Dunham

1.82takedowns / 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

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.

Ross Pearson↑ +8.4pp
open 59.9%close 68.3%
Evan Dunham↓ −8.4pp
open 40.1%close 31.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 59.9% and closed at 68.3% (+8.4pp), with Evan Dunham 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
Ross Pearson-175-24259.9%68.3%+8.4pp
Evan Dunham13520540.1%31.7%−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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