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Events · UFC 87: Seek And Destroy · Georges St-Pierre vs Jon Fitch
From the tape · 9 Aug 2008

Georges St-Pierre vs Jon Fitch

UFC 87: Seek And Destroy · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Result

Georges St-Pierre beat Jon Fitch

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight 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.

GS
Red corner GeorgesSt-Pierre“Rush”Tristar Gym · St. Isidore, Quebec
VSOn the tape
JF
Blue corner JonFitchAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Fort Wayne, Indiana
Welterweight Title5 rounds9 Aug 2008
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
26-2
Record
30-7-1
−3 yr27
Age
30
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+412
UFC bouts
8
+10%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
4/850% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
St. Isidore, Quebec
From
Fort Wayne, Indiana
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre39 sig landed
HEAD95%37 of 53BODY5%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Jon Fitch1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
39 of 55
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:34
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 32
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 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 action
Georges St-Pierre27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 50BODY0%0 of 2LEGS26%7 of 7
Jon Fitch16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 39BODY50%8 of 11LEGS6%1 of 1
27 of 59
Sig.
strikes
16 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 2 KD St-Pierre1 sub attempt
Georges St-Pierre24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 36BODY12%3 of 3LEGS12%3 of 3
Jon Fitch11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 21BODY27%3 of 4LEGS9%1 of 1
24 of 42
Sig.
strikes
11 of 26
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:54
Control
1:20
2
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
Georges St-Pierre17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 27BODY12%2 of 4LEGS12%2 of 3
Jon Fitch8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 34BODY12%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
8 of 38
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 5
1:03
Control
0:32
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Georges St-Pierre24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 27BODY25%6 of 6LEGS12%3 of 3
Jon Fitch1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 36
Sig.
strikes
1 of 10
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — Georges St-Pierre first
JudgeTotal
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide50–43
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide50–44
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide50–44

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 — 6 scored, Georges St-Pierre first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com50–43
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com50–43
Greg Savage Sherdog.com50–43
Fight Metric.com50–44
MM AJunkie.com50–44
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com50–44

Fan vote · unofficial

50-43 St-Pierre · 58%50-44 St-Pierre · 12%50-42 St-Pierre · 11%49-45 St-Pierre · 6%49-44 St-Pierre · 4%

93 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.

Georges St-Pierre

4.16takedowns / 15 min
4.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.60 / 15m
5.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.06 / 15m
74%
ACCURACY
51%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Jon Fitch

3.60takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Georges St-Pierre↑ +10.8pp
open 67.4%close 78.2%
Jon Fitch↓ −10.8pp
open 32.6%close 21.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Georges St-Pierre opened at 67.4% and closed at 78.2% (+10.8pp), with Jon Fitch 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
Georges St-Pierre-250-39567.4%78.2%+10.8pp
Jon Fitch19035032.6%21.8%−10.8pp
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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