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Events · UFC Fight Night: Petrino vs Asplund · Brad Tavares vs Eryk Anders
Red corner BradTavaresKailua, Hawaii
VSSettled
Blue corner ErykAnders“Ya Boi”Spartan Fitness MMA · Birmingham, Alabama
Middleweight Bout3 rounds14 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 16 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 27 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Anders.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Tavares.
21-13
Record
18-9
38
Age
38
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+827
UFC bouts
19
2/1612% of wins
Finishes
+43%5/956% of wins
Kailua, Hawaii
From
Birmingham, Alabama
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Brad Tavares
52.2% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 57%
Vs the market−2.5pp
Market had our pick at55%
The fight
Eryk Anders
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Brad Tavares at 52.2%Eryk Anders won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Brad Tavares18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 23BODY56%10 of 11LEGS6%1 of 1
Eryk Anders20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 34BODY15%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 35
Sig.
strikes
20 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
3:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 16Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstSal D'Amato9–10Anthony Maness9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Tavares
Brad Tavares18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 22BODY33%6 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
Eryk Anders11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 24BODY45%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 31
Sig.
strikes
11 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:29
Control
2:25
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tavares firstSal D'Amato10–9Anthony Maness9–10Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brad Tavares12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 19BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Eryk Anders4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 11BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 20
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:00
Control
3:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tavares firstSal D'Amato9–10Anthony Maness9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Brad TavaresEryk Anders
Official totals — Brad Tavares first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 13 scored, Brad Tavares first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Anders · 48%29-28 Tavares · 30%30-27 Tavares · 7%30-27 Anders · 7%

27 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.

Brad Tavares

0.70takedowns / 15 min
0.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.83 / 15m
2.69 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.32 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
25%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Eryk Anders

1.83takedowns / 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.

Brad Tavares↓ −17.1pp
open 62.8%close 45.7%
Eryk Anders↑ +17.1pp
open 37.2%close 54.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Tavares opened at 62.8% and closed at 45.7% (−17.1pp), with Eryk Anders 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.

Our published call had Brad Tavares at 52.2%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 45.7% — our number sat 6.5pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Brad Tavares-18510962.8%45.7%−17.1pp
Eryk Anders160-13237.2%54.3%+17.1pp
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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