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Events · UFC 84: Ill Will · Lyoto Machida vs Tito Ortiz
From the tape · 24 May 2008

Lyoto Machida vs Tito Ortiz

UFC 84: Ill Will · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Lyoto Machida beat Tito Ortiz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain 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.

LM
Red corner LyotoMachida“The Dragon”Belem, Para
VSOn the tape
TO
Blue corner TitoOrtiz“The People's Champ”Team Punishment · Huntington Beach, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds24 May 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Ortiz.
  • 20 UFC bouts deep — 16 more than Machida.
24-8
Record
19-12-1
−4 yr29
Age
33
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
74″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+1620
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+39%9/1464% of wins
Belem, Para
From
Huntington Beach, 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 action
Lyoto Machida17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 8BODY18%3 of 4LEGS59%10 of 12
Tito Ortiz0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 2

No significant strikes landed — 18 thrown

17 of 24
Sig.
strikes
0 of 18
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:10
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstDouglas Crosby10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Lyoto Machida15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 11BODY13%2 of 2LEGS33%5 of 5
Tito Ortiz3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 12BODY67%2 of 2LEGS33%1 of 2
15 of 18
Sig.
strikes
3 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:19
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstDouglas Crosby10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Machida2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Lyoto Machida9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 15BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
Tito Ortiz13 sig landed
HEAD15%2 of 7BODY69%9 of 9LEGS15%2 of 3
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
13 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:27
Control
0:19
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstDouglas Crosby10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Lyoto MachidaTito Ortiz
Official totals — Lyoto Machida first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby30–27
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 6 scored, Lyoto Machida first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Machida · 72%29-28 Machida · 11%30-27 Ortiz · 6%30-25 Ortiz · 6%30-26 Machida · 6%

18 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.

Lyoto Machida

1.21takedowns / 15 min
1.21 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.47 / 15m
1.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.06 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Tito Ortiz

2.47takedowns / 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.

Lyoto Machida↑ +8.5pp
open 55.8%close 64.3%
Tito Ortiz↓ −8.5pp
open 44.2%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Lyoto Machida opened at 55.8% and closed at 64.3% (+8.5pp), with Tito Ortiz 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Lyoto Machida-150-20055.8%64.3%+8.5pp
Tito Ortiz11017044.2%35.7%−8.5pp
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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