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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Brad TavaresEryk Anders
Official card — Brad Tavares first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide9–1010–99–1028–29
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide9–109–109–1027–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide9–1010–99–1028–29

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.

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The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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