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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale · Matt Mitrione vs Marcus Jones
From the tape · 5 Dec 2009

Matt Mitrione vs Marcus Jones

The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Mitrione beat Marcus Jones

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:10
HeavyweightMain 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.

MM
Red corner MattMitrioneKill Cliff FC · Indianapolis, Indiana
VSOn the tape
MJ
Blue corner MarcusJones“The Darkness”Tampa, Florida
Heavyweight3 rounds5 Dec 2009
The story going in
  • Carries 55 points more takedown defence than Jones.
  • Averages 8.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Mitrione.
12-5
Record
4-2
−5 yr31
Age
36
6' 3"
Height
+3″6' 6"
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
Indianapolis, Indiana
From
Tampa, Florida
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Matt Mitrione11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 21BODY36%4 of 4LEGS36%4 of 5
Marcus Jones10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 13BODY10%1 of 2LEGS30%3 of 3
11 of 30
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
1:01
Control
2:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 20:10 of action⚡ 1 KD MitrioneEnded 0:10
Matt Mitrione3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Marcus Jones0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Matt Mitrione

Round
2
Clock
0:10
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Steve Mazzagatti.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Matt Mitrione

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
8.71 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
11.61 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
75%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.90 / 15m

Marcus Jones

8.71takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Matt Mitrione↑ +0.8pp
open 27.2%close 28.0%
Marcus Jones↓ −0.8pp
open 72.8%close 72.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Mitrione opened at 27.2% and closed at 28.0% (+0.8pp), with Marcus Jones 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
Matt Mitrione25024527.2%28.0%+0.8pp
Marcus Jones-325-29072.8%72.0%−0.8pp
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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