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Events · UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Urijah Faber vs Brad Pickett
From the tape · 17 Dec 2016

Urijah Faber vs Brad Pickett

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Urijah Faber beat Brad Pickett

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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
BP
Blue corner BradPickett“One Punch”London
Bantamweight3 rounds17 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
35-11
Record
25-14
−1 yr37
Age
38
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
+1″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+315
UFC bouts
12
+27%6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
Sacramento, California
From
London
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⚡ 1 KD Faber
Urijah Faber33 sig landed
HEAD91%30 of 46BODY6%2 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
Brad Pickett3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%2 of 7
33 of 51
Sig.
strikes
3 of 22
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:58
Control
0:27
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 21
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Marcos Rosales10–8
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Urijah Faber14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 38BODY7%1 of 1LEGS14%2 of 2
Brad Pickett10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 18BODY10%1 of 3LEGS50%5 of 8
14 of 41
Sig.
strikes
10 of 29
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:34
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Urijah Faber23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 30BODY9%2 of 2LEGS4%1 of 2
Brad Pickett5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS40%2 of 4
23 of 34
Sig.
strikes
5 of 14
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:50
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Faber firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Marcos Rosales10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Urijah FaberBrad Pickett
Official totals — Urijah Faber first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–26
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–26

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

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–26
John Pollock Fight Network30–26
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–26
MM AForum.com.br30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Combat Press.com30–26
Severe MMA.com30–26
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–26
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–26
Phil Murphy ESPN30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–27
Gabriel Gelli mmabrasil.com.br30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Rob Young CombatPress.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Faber · 81%30-27 Faber · 8%30-25 Faber · 6%29-28 Pickett · 2%29-27 Faber · 2%

47 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
2.47 / 15m
5.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.61 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
44%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Brad Pickett

2.47takedowns / 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→ no move
open 75.2%close 75.1%
Brad Pickett→ no move
open 24.8%close 24.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Urijah Faber opened at 75.2% and closed at 75.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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
Urijah Faber-400-35075.2%75.1%−0.2pp
Brad Pickett28028724.8%24.9%+0.2pp
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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