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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Aljamain Sterling vs Bryan Caraway
From the tape · 29 May 2016

Aljamain Sterling vs Bryan Caraway

UFC Fight Night: Almeida vs Garbrandt · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Bryan Caraway beat Aljamain Sterling

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

Red corner AljamainSterling“Funk Master”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Cortland, New York
VSOn the tape
BC
Blue corner BryanCaraway“Kid Lightning”Xtreme Couture · Seattle, Washington
Bantamweight3 rounds29 May 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than Sterling.
26-5
Record
21-9
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+37
3/475% of wins
Finishes
+5%4/580% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Cortland, New York
From
Seattle, Washington
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 action2 sub attempts
Aljamain Sterling7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 13BODY14%1 of 2LEGS43%3 of 5
Bryan Caraway1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:40
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Dave Hagen10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 17BODY53%10 of 12LEGS21%4 of 5
Bryan Caraway6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 17BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 34
Sig.
strikes
6 of 18
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:11
Control
2:42
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Dave Hagen9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aljamain Sterling6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 4BODY50%3 of 4LEGS33%2 of 2
Bryan Caraway2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
3:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Dave Hagen9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Aljamain SterlingBryan Caraway
Official totals — Aljamain Sterling first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 25 scored, Aljamain Sterling first · unofficial

Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Youngs TheMMACorner.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–28
MM AJunkie.com28–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–28
Rob Young CombatPress.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Caraway · 54%29-28 Sterling · 6%30-27 Sterling · 1%30-26 Caraway · 1%

138 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.

Aljamain Sterling

2.54takedowns / 15 min
2.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.57 / 15m
7.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.28 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
25%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Bryan Caraway

2.57takedowns / 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.

Aljamain Sterling↓ −2.6pp
open 75.5%close 73.0%
Bryan Caraway↑ +2.6pp
open 24.5%close 27.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aljamain Sterling opened at 75.5% and closed at 73.0% (−2.6pp), with Bryan Caraway 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
Aljamain Sterling-405-31075.5%73.0%−2.6pp
Bryan Caraway28525724.5%27.0%+2.6pp
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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