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Events · UFC 72: Victory · Tyson Griffin vs Clay Guida
From the tape · 16 Jun 2007

Tyson Griffin vs Clay Guida

UFC 72: Victory · Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Result

Tyson Griffin beat Clay Guida

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

TG
Red corner TysonGriffinAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Santa Rosa, California
VSOn the tape
CG
Blue corner ClayGuida“The Carpenter”Team Alpha Male · Round Lake, Illinois
Lightweight3 rounds16 Jun 2007
The story going in
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Guida.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Griffin.
16-8
Record
38-22
−2 yr23
Age
25
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Santa Rosa, California
From
Round Lake, Illinois
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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 action1 sub attempt
Tyson Griffin16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 26BODY31%5 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
Clay Guida8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 17BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
8 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
1:01
Control
2:15
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Tyson Griffin17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 14BODY65%11 of 11LEGS6%1 of 1
Clay Guida5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 26
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
2 of 2
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:43
Control
2:22
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tyson Griffin17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 28BODY0%0 landedLEGS6%1 of 1
Clay Guida23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 23BODY43%10 of 11LEGS9%2 of 2
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
23 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:05
Control
3:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 17
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Tyson Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 2 scored, Tyson Griffin first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com29–28
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Guida · 80%30-28 Guida · 7%29-28 Griffin · 7%

15 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.

Tyson Griffin

1.87takedowns / 15 min
1.87 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.10 / 15m
4.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.86 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
35%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Clay Guida

3.10takedowns / 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.

Tyson Griffin vs Clay Guida.

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