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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Alexis Davis vs Liz Carmouche
From the tape · 9 Dec 2017

Alexis Davis vs Liz Carmouche

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Fresno, California, USA
Result

Alexis Davis beat Liz Carmouche

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Frank Trigg

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.

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Red corner AlexisDavisCombat Sports Academy · Port Colborne, Ontario
VSOn the tape
LC
Blue corner LizCarmouche“Girlrilla”The Arena · San Diego, California
Women's Flyweight3 rounds9 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Carmouche.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 31 points more takedown defence than Davis.
21-11
Record
13-7
33
Age
33
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+17
UFC bouts
6
1/520% of wins
Finishes
+13%1/333% of wins
Combat Sports Academy
Gym
The Arena
Port Colborne, Ontario
From
San Diego, California
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 action1 sub attempt
Alexis Davis9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 9BODY44%4 of 4LEGS33%3 of 3
Liz Carmouche16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 11BODY25%4 of 6LEGS25%4 of 4
9 of 16
Sig.
strikes
16 of 21
0 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:36
Control
2:39
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 9Ground 5
Judges · this round · Davis firstDerek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Jason McCoy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexis Davis6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 15BODY17%1 of 5LEGS33%2 of 2
Liz Carmouche13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 14BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 3
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
13 of 19
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
4:01
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Davis firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Jason McCoy9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Alexis Davis8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 20BODY12%1 of 1LEGS25%2 of 4
Liz Carmouche20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 21BODY35%7 of 7LEGS15%3 of 3
8 of 25
Sig.
strikes
20 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:14
Control
3:53
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 8
Judges · this round · Davis firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Jason McCoy9–10

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 · Frank Trigg
Alexis DavisLiz Carmouche
Official totals — Alexis Davis first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Jason McCoy28–29

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 — 15 scored, Alexis Davis first · unofficial

Combat Press.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Davis · 42%29-28 Carmouche · 36%30-27 Carmouche · 13%30-28 Davis · 2%

45 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.

Alexis Davis

0.95takedowns / 15 min
0.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.57 / 15m
2.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.04 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
51%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Liz Carmouche

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.

Alexis Davis→ no move
open 46.2%close 45.9%
Liz Carmouche→ no move
open 53.8%close 54.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Alexis Davis opened at 46.2% and closed at 45.9% 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
Alexis Davis10010946.2%45.9%−0.2pp
Liz Carmouche-140-12953.8%54.1%+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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