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Events · UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 · Jon Fitch vs Akihiro Gono
From the tape · 31 Jan 2009

Jon Fitch vs Akihiro Gono

UFC 94: St-Pierre vs Penn 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jon Fitch beat Akihiro Gono

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

JF
Red corner JonFitchAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Fort Wayne, Indiana
VSOn the tape
AG
Blue corner AkihiroGonoHigashikurume, Tokyo
Welterweight3 rounds31 Jan 2009
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 9 points more striking defence than Fitch.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Gono.
30-7-1
Record
35-21-8
−4 yr30
Age
34
+5″6' 0"
Height
5' 7"
+6″74″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+79
UFC bouts
2
4/850% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Fort Wayne, Indiana
From
Higashikurume, Tokyo
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
Jon Fitch17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 11BODY53%9 of 10LEGS24%4 of 5
Akihiro Gono4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY25%1 of 1LEGS75%3 of 4
17 of 26
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:33
Control
0:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 11Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fitch firstCecil Peoples10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Jon Fitch10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 17BODY10%1 of 1LEGS20%2 of 2
Akihiro Gono1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 20
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:06
Control
0:30
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Fitch firstCecil Peoples10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Jon Fitch13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 12BODY62%8 of 11LEGS8%1 of 1
Akihiro Gono2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 9BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 24
Sig.
strikes
2 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:30
Control
1:08
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Fitch firstCecil Peoples10–9Tony 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 · Steve Mazzagatti
Jon FitchAkihiro Gono
Official totals — Jon Fitch first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% 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 — 3 scored, Jon Fitch first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Fitch · 75%30-26 Fitch · 25%

4 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.

Jon Fitch

3.60takedowns / 15 min
3.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.01 / 15m
7.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.20 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
84%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Akihiro Gono

1.01takedowns / 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.

Jon Fitch↑ +2.0pp
open 82.4%close 84.4%
Akihiro Gono↓ −2.0pp
open 17.6%close 15.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Fitch opened at 82.4% and closed at 84.4% (+2.0pp), with Akihiro Gono 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
Jon Fitch-650-73082.4%84.4%+2.0pp
Akihiro Gono44051517.6%15.6%−2.0pp
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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