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Events · UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin · Forrest Griffin vs Quinton Jackson
From the tape · 5 Jul 2008

Forrest Griffin vs Quinton Jackson

UFC 86: Jackson vs Griffin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Forrest Griffin beat Quinton Jackson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

FG
Red corner ForrestGriffinAthens, Georgia
VSOn the tape
QJ
Blue corner QuintonJackson“Rampage”Wolfslair Academy · Memphis, Tennessee
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds5 Jul 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
19-7
Record
37-12
−1 yr29
Age
30
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
+4″77″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+58
UFC bouts
3
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Athens, Georgia
From
Memphis, Tennessee
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Jackson
Forrest Griffin23 sig landed
HEAD26%6 of 41BODY17%4 of 8LEGS57%13 of 14
Quinton Jackson16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 29BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
23 of 63
Sig.
strikes
16 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:54
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 5
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Nelson Hamilton9–10Roy Silbert10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Forrest Griffin16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 31BODY6%1 of 1LEGS12%2 of 3
Quinton Jackson0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

16 of 35
Sig.
strikes
0 of 0
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:41
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd10–8Nelson Hamilton10–8Roy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Forrest Griffin14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 44BODY7%1 of 5LEGS71%10 of 15
Quinton Jackson8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 30BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 64
Sig.
strikes
8 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Forrest Griffin2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 25BODY0%0 of 3LEGS50%1 of 5
Quinton Jackson14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 32BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 33
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:16
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Nelson Hamilton9–10Roy Silbert9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Forrest Griffin22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 64BODY23%5 of 8LEGS41%9 of 9
Quinton Jackson12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 34BODY33%4 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
22 of 81
Sig.
strikes
12 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Nelson Hamilton10–9Roy Silbert10–9

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
Forrest GriffinQuinton Jackson
Official totals — Forrest Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide48–46
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide48–46
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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, Forrest Griffin first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com48–46
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com48–46
Fight Metric.com47–47
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com47–47
MM AJunkie.com47–48
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Griffin · 29%48-47 Jackson · 13%48-47 Griffin · 12%48-46 Jackson · 4%

233 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.

Forrest Griffin

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.71 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
56%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Quinton Jackson

1.52takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Forrest Griffin↓ −2.1pp
open 30.7%close 28.5%
Quinton Jackson↑ +2.1pp
open 69.3%close 71.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Forrest Griffin opened at 30.7% and closed at 28.5% (−2.1pp), with Quinton Jackson 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
Forrest Griffin21024530.7%28.5%−2.1pp
Quinton Jackson-270-26569.3%71.5%+2.1pp
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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