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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch · Anthony Rocco Martin vs Olivier Aubin-Mercier
From the tape · 16 Sep 2017

Anthony Rocco Martin vs Olivier Aubin-Mercier

UFC Fight Night: Rockhold vs. Branch · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Olivier Aubin-Mercier beat Anthony Rocco Martin

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Rob Hinds

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.

AM
Red corner Anthony RoccoMartinAmerican Top Team · Palos Heights, Illinois
VSOn the tape
OA
Blue corner OlivierAubin-Mercier“The Canadian Gangster”Boucherville, Quebec
Lightweight3 rounds16 Sep 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
17-6
Record
11-5
−1 yr27
Age
28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
7
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+30%4/580% of wins
Palos Heights, Illinois
From
Boucherville, Quebec
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
Anthony Rocco Martin8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 19BODY12%1 of 2LEGS12%1 of 2
Olivier Aubin-Mercier13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 18BODY23%3 of 4LEGS46%6 of 6
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:56
Control
0:45
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Martin firstEric Colón10–9Greg Monskie9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Anthony Rocco Martin3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Olivier Aubin-Mercier7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
7 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Martin firstEric Colón9–10Greg Monskie9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Anthony Rocco Martin4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Olivier Aubin-Mercier0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

4 of 10
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
4:15
Control
0:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Martin firstEric Colón10–9Greg Monskie10–9Jeff Mullen10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Rob Hinds
Anthony Rocco MartinOlivier Aubin-Mercier
Official totals — Anthony Rocco Martin first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Greg Monskie28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 16 scored, Anthony Rocco Martin first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Aubin-Mercier · 71%29-28 Martin · 16%

38 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.

Anthony Rocco Martin

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.36 / 15m
2.63 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.15 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
33%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Olivier Aubin-Mercier

2.36takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Anthony Rocco Martin vs Olivier Aubin-Mercier.

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