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History · 2010 · UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida · George Sotiropoulos vs Joe Lauzon
From the tape · 20 Nov 2010

George Sotiropoulos vs Joe Lauzon

UFC 123: Rampage vs Machida · Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
Result

George Sotiropoulos beat Joe Lauzon

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:43
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc Fennell

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 GeorgeSotiropoulosAmerican Top Team · Geelong, Victoria
VSOn the tape
JL
Blue corner JoeLauzonLauzon MMA · Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Lightweight3 rounds20 Nov 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Lauzon’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Sotiropoulos.
14-7
Record
28-16
33
Age
−7 yr26
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+28
4/667% of wins
Finishes
+33%6/6100% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Lauzon MMA
Geelong, Victoria
From
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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 action
George Sotiropoulos7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 37BODY29%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Lauzon15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 63BODY7%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 41
Sig.
strikes
15 of 64
2 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:47
Control
0:44
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 4
Round 22:43 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 2:43
George Sotiropoulos12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 24BODY33%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Lauzon1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 14BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 29
Sig.
strikes
1 of 15
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:36
Control
0:01
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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

George Sotiropoulos

Round
2
Clock
2:43
Method
Submission

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: Marc Fennell.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

George Sotiropoulos

2.32takedowns / 15 min
2.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.39 / 15m
7.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.31 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
45%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.00 / 15m

Joe Lauzon

2.39takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

George Sotiropoulos↑ +4.6pp
open 63.2%close 67.9%
Joe Lauzon↓ −4.6pp
open 36.8%close 32.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

George Sotiropoulos opened at 63.2% and closed at 67.9% (+4.6pp), with Joe Lauzon 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
George Sotiropoulos-195-22563.2%67.9%+4.6pp
Joe Lauzon16020536.8%32.1%−4.6pp
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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