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History · 2016 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale · Ross Pearson vs Will Brooks
From the tape · 8 Jul 2016

Ross Pearson vs Will Brooks

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Joanna vs. Team Cláudia Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Will Brooks beat Ross Pearson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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
WB
Blue corner WillBrooks“Ill”American Top Team · Schaumburg, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds8 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Is 19 points more accurate striking than Pearson.
20-16
Record
18-4
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
69″
Reach
+3″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Central Coast MMA
Gym
American Top Team
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
From
Schaumburg, Illinois
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ross Pearson10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 12BODY40%4 of 7LEGS50%5 of 5
Will Brooks19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 25BODY47%9 of 10LEGS32%6 of 6
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
19 of 41
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:21
Control
1:35
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 7Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Ross Pearson9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 18BODY56%5 of 8LEGS22%2 of 3
Will Brooks33 sig landed
HEAD52%17 of 31BODY36%12 of 14LEGS12%4 of 5
9 of 29
Sig.
strikes
33 of 50
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:50
Control
2:07
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 11Ground 5
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ross Pearson35 sig landed
HEAD34%12 of 35BODY57%20 of 24LEGS9%3 of 3
Will Brooks28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 43BODY39%11 of 14LEGS7%2 of 2
35 of 62
Sig.
strikes
28 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:56
Control
0:52
Distance 17Clinch 18Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 14Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Ross Pearson first
JudgeTotal
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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
2.08 / 15m
2.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.08 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
51%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Will Brooks

2.08takedowns / 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↑ +2.6pp
open 21.6%close 24.2%
Will Brooks↓ −2.6pp
open 78.4%close 75.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ross Pearson opened at 21.6% and closed at 24.2% (+2.6pp), with Will Brooks 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 Pearson33530021.6%24.2%+2.6pp
Will Brooks-505-36278.4%75.8%−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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