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History · 2016 · UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem · Urijah Faber vs Jimmie Rivera
From the tape · 10 Sep 2016

Urijah Faber vs Jimmie Rivera

UFC 203: Miocic vs. Overeem · Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Result

Jimmie Rivera beat Urijah Faber

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

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
JR
Blue corner JimmieRivera“El Terror”Team Tiger Schulmann · Ramsey, New Jersey
Bantamweight3 rounds10 Sep 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Rivera.
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Faber.
35-11
Record
23-5
37
Age
−10 yr27
+2″5' 6"
Height
5' 4"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1114
UFC bouts
3
+33%6/967% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Team Tiger Schulmann
Sacramento, California
From
Ramsey, New Jersey
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 Faber9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 31BODY33%3 of 5LEGS22%2 of 4
Jimmie Rivera12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 36BODY8%1 of 3LEGS50%6 of 7
9 of 40
Sig.
strikes
12 of 46
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Urijah Faber8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 27BODY25%2 of 3LEGS25%2 of 3
Jimmie Rivera23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 40BODY9%2 of 7LEGS48%11 of 13
8 of 33
Sig.
strikes
23 of 60
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Rick Winter9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Urijah Faber5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 36BODY0%0 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
Jimmie Rivera19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 37BODY32%6 of 10LEGS37%7 of 7
5 of 39
Sig.
strikes
19 of 54
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Rick Winter9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Gary Copeland
Urijah FaberJimmie Rivera
Official totals — Urijah Faber first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide27–30

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 — 18 scored, Urijah Faber first · unofficial

Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AForum.com.br27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Rivera · 94%30-26 Rivera · 4%29-28 Rivera · 2%

48 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
0.88 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.26 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
27%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Jimmie Rivera

0.88takedowns / 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↓ −12.3pp
open 51.9%close 39.6%
Jimmie Rivera↑ +12.3pp
open 48.1%close 60.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Urijah Faber opened at 51.9% and closed at 39.6% (−12.3pp), with Jimmie Rivera 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-13014551.9%39.6%−12.3pp
Jimmie Rivera-110-16548.1%60.4%+12.3pp
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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