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History · 2015 · UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor · Urijah Faber vs Frankie Saenz
From the tape · 12 Dec 2015

Urijah Faber vs Frankie Saenz

UFC 194: Aldo vs McGregor · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Urijah Faber beat Frankie Saenz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · 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.

UF
Red corner UrijahFaber“The California Kid”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
FS
Blue corner FrankieSaenzFight Ready · Scottsdale, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds12 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Saenz.
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Faber.
35-11
Record
13-7
36
Age
−1 yr35
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+1″67″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+912
UFC bouts
3
+75%6/875% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Fight Ready
Sacramento, California
From
Scottsdale, Arizona
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
Urijah Faber25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 25BODY32%8 of 9LEGS8%2 of 2
Frankie Saenz23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 32BODY17%4 of 5LEGS43%10 of 11
25 of 36
Sig.
strikes
23 of 48
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:23
Distance 14Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstTony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Urijah Faber30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 31BODY27%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Saenz23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 21BODY22%5 of 5LEGS35%8 of 10
30 of 39
Sig.
strikes
23 of 36
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:50
Control
1:15
Distance 4Clinch 26Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 8Ground 1
Judges · this round · Faber firstTony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Urijah Faber20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 31BODY20%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Frankie Saenz20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 36BODY30%6 of 11LEGS20%4 of 5
20 of 36
Sig.
strikes
20 of 52
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:53
Control
0:22
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstTony Weeks10–9

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
Urijah FaberFrankie Saenz
Official totals — Urijah Faber first
JudgeTotal
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 16 scored, Urijah Faber first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
John Pollock Fight Network30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Pundit Arena.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Faber · 40%29-28 Faber · 40%29-28 Saenz · 9%30-28 Saenz · 2%

45 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.

Urijah Faber

1.54takedowns / 15 min
1.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.74 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.61 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
31%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Frankie Saenz

1.74takedowns / 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.

Urijah Faber↑ +1.0pp
open 78.4%close 79.4%
Frankie Saenz↓ −1.0pp
open 21.6%close 20.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Urijah Faber opened at 78.4% and closed at 79.4% (+1.0pp), with Frankie Saenz 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
Urijah Faber-505-46978.4%79.4%+1.0pp
Frankie Saenz33536921.6%20.6%−1.0pp
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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