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History · 2016 · UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Walt Harris vs Cody East
From the tape · 23 Apr 2016

Walt Harris vs Cody East

UFC 197: Jones vs Saint Preux · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Walt Harris beat Cody East

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:18
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

WH
Red corner WaltHarris“The Big Ticket”Homewood, Alabama
VSOn the tape
CE
Blue corner CodyEast“The Freight Train”Jackson-Wink MMA · Los Lunas, New Mexico
Heavyweight3 rounds23 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Harris.
  • Carries 54 points more takedown defence than East.
13-10
Record
12-3
32
Age
−5 yr27
+2″6' 5"
Height
6' 3"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Homewood, Alabama
From
Los Lunas, New Mexico
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 14:18 of action⚡ 1 KD HarrisEnded 4:18
Walt Harris31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 51BODY13%4 of 5LEGS6%2 of 2
Cody East26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 47BODY12%3 of 6LEGS27%7 of 9
31 of 58
Sig.
strikes
26 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:40
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 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

Walt Harris

Round
1
Clock
4:18
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: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Walt Harris

0.29takedowns / 15 min
0.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.97 / 15m
1.04 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.97 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
100%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Cody East

3.97takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Walt Harris↑ +1.4pp
open 36.2%close 37.6%
Cody East↓ −1.4pp
open 63.8%close 62.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Walt Harris opened at 36.2% and closed at 37.6% (+1.4pp), with Cody East 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
Walt Harris16015736.2%37.6%+1.4pp
Cody East-210-18263.8%62.4%−1.4pp
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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