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Events · UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2 · Forrest Griffin vs Tito Ortiz
From the tape · 21 Nov 2009

Forrest Griffin vs Tito Ortiz

UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Forrest Griffin beat Tito Ortiz

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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
TO
Blue corner TitoOrtiz“The People's Champ”Team Punishment · Huntington Beach, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds21 Nov 2009
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Griffin.
19-7
Record
19-12-1
−4 yr30
Age
34
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+3″77″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+1021
3/743% of wins
Finishes
+21%9/1464% of wins
Athens, Georgia
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
Forrest Griffin19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 47BODY26%5 of 6LEGS21%4 of 6
Tito Ortiz10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 29BODY10%1 of 1LEGS10%1 of 1
19 of 59
Sig.
strikes
10 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:37
Control
1:18
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Griffin firstLester Griffin10–9Marcos Rosales9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Forrest Griffin10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 27BODY20%2 of 3LEGS20%2 of 3
Tito Ortiz9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 33
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:34
Control
2:51
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Griffin firstLester Griffin10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Forrest Griffin41 sig landed
HEAD68%28 of 96BODY10%4 of 8LEGS22%9 of 10
Tito Ortiz5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 17BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
41 of 114
Sig.
strikes
5 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 40Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstLester Griffin10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Forrest GriffinTito Ortiz
Official totals — Forrest Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide28–29

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 — 5 scored, Forrest Griffin first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com29–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Griffin · 53%29-28 Ortiz · 16%29-27 Griffin · 10%30-27 Griffin · 10%

38 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
2.47 / 15m
2.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.06 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
35%
0.70 / 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 (5.96 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↓ −4.3pp
open 61.6%close 57.3%
Tito Ortiz↑ +4.3pp
open 38.4%close 42.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Forrest Griffin opened at 61.6% and closed at 57.3% (−4.3pp), 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
Forrest Griffin-180-14061.6%57.3%−4.3pp
Tito Ortiz15013038.4%42.7%+4.3pp
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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