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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy · Derek Brunson vs Roan Carneiro
From the tape · 21 Feb 2016

Derek Brunson vs Roan Carneiro

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Derek Brunson beat Roan Carneiro

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
2:38
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

DB
Red corner DerekBrunson“The One”Kill Cliff FC · Wilmington, North Carolina
VSOn the tape
RC
Blue corner RoanCarneiro“Jucao”American Top Team Atlanta · Rio de Janeiro
Middleweight3 rounds21 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Brunson.
23-9
Record
21-11
−5 yr32
Age
37
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
6
3/560% of wins
Finishes
+7%2/367% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
American Top Team Atlanta
Wilmington, North Carolina
From
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 12:38 of actionEnded 2:38
Derek Brunson23 sig landed
HEAD96%22 of 50BODY0%0 landedLEGS4%1 of 1
Roan Carneiro0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 13 thrown

23 of 51
Sig.
strikes
0 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:42
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Derek Brunson

Round
1
Clock
2:38
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Keith Peterson.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Derek Brunson

3.14takedowns / 15 min
3.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.05 / 15m
9.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.26 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
42%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Roan Carneiro

3.05takedowns / 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.

Derek Brunson→ no move
open 75.2%close 75.5%
Roan Carneiro→ no move
open 24.8%close 24.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Derek Brunson opened at 75.2% and closed at 75.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Derek Brunson-400-35775.2%75.5%+0.3pp
Roan Carneiro28029524.8%24.5%−0.3pp
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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