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Events · UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage · Tony Ferguson vs Aaron Riley
From the tape · 24 Sep 2011

Tony Ferguson vs Aaron Riley

UFC 135: Jones vs Rampage · Denver, Colorado, USA
Result

Tony Ferguson beat Aaron Riley

Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage
Round
1 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Tom Johnson

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.

TF
Red corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
VSOn the tape
AR
Blue corner AaronRileyJackson-Wink MMA · Tell City, Indiana
Lightweight3 rounds24 Sep 2011
The story going in
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Riley.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Ferguson.
26-11
Record
30-14-1
−3 yr27
Age
30
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+7″76″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+67
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Knuckleheadz MMA
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Oxnard, California
From
Tell City, 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

1 round of tape

Round 15:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Tony Ferguson31 sig landed
HEAD71%22 of 67BODY19%6 of 8LEGS10%3 of 7
Aaron Riley11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 35BODY36%4 of 7LEGS36%4 of 7
31 of 82
Sig.
strikes
11 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 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

Tony Ferguson

Round
1
Clock
5:00
Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage

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: Tom Johnson.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.18 / 15m
1.11 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.47 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
34%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Aaron Riley

1.18takedowns / 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.

Tony Ferguson↑ +7.1pp
open 68.9%close 76.0%
Aaron Riley↓ −7.1pp
open 31.1%close 24.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tony Ferguson opened at 68.9% and closed at 76.0% (+7.1pp), with Aaron Riley 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
Tony Ferguson-265-34068.9%76.0%+7.1pp
Aaron Riley20531031.1%24.0%−7.1pp
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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