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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson · Eryk Anders vs Gerald Meerschaert
From the tape · 12 Oct 2019

Eryk Anders vs Gerald Meerschaert

UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson · Tampa, Florida, USA
Result

Eryk Anders beat Gerald Meerschaert

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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.

Red corner ErykAnders“Ya Boi”Spartan Fitness MMA · Birmingham, Alabama
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GeraldMeerschaert“GM3”Kill Cliff FC · Racine, Wisconsin
Middleweight3 rounds12 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Meerschaert’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 40 points more takedown defence than Meerschaert.
18-9
Record
37-22
32
Age
−1 yr31
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
8
UFC bouts
8
3/475% of wins
Finishes
+25%5/5100% of wins
Spartan Fitness MMA
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Birmingham, Alabama
From
Racine, Wisconsin
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
Eryk Anders15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 52BODY20%3 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
Gerald Meerschaert13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 50BODY15%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
15 of 58
Sig.
strikes
13 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anders firstDerek Cleary10–9Michelle Olney10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Eryk Anders20 sig landed
HEAD45%9 of 42BODY15%3 of 5LEGS40%8 of 11
Gerald Meerschaert31 sig landed
HEAD84%26 of 72BODY13%4 of 4LEGS3%1 of 1
20 of 58
Sig.
strikes
31 of 77
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anders firstDerek Cleary9–10Michelle Olney10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Eryk Anders29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 38BODY28%8 of 12LEGS34%10 of 12
Gerald Meerschaert28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 63BODY25%7 of 7LEGS4%1 of 1
29 of 62
Sig.
strikes
28 of 71
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Anders firstDerek Cleary9–10Michelle Olney9–10Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Kevin MacDonald
Eryk AndersGerald Meerschaert
Official totals — Eryk Anders first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Michelle Olney29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

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, Eryk Anders first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Idonaldo Filho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Meerschaert · 81%29-28 Anders · 13%30-28 Meerschaert · 3%30-27 Anders · 1%29-27 Meerschaert · 1%

70 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.

Eryk Anders

1.83takedowns / 15 min
1.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.70 / 15m
7.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.86 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
29%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Gerald Meerschaert

1.70takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Eryk Anders→ no move
open 55.8%close 55.5%
Gerald Meerschaert→ no move
open 44.2%close 44.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Eryk Anders opened at 55.8% and closed at 55.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp 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
Eryk Anders-150-13855.8%55.5%−0.3pp
Gerald Meerschaert11011544.2%44.5%+0.3pp
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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