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Events · UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II · Chris Cariaso vs John Moraga
From the tape · 29 Dec 2012

Chris Cariaso vs John Moraga

UFC 155: Dos Santos vs Velasquez II · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

John Moraga beat Chris Cariaso

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
1:11
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

CC
Red corner ChrisCariaso“Kamikaze”Fight and Fitness · San Francisco, California
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JohnMoragaPhoenix, Arizona
Flyweight3 rounds29 Dec 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Moraga.
17-8
Record
19-7
31
Age
−3 yr28
5' 3"
Height
+3″5' 6"
64″
Reach
+2″66″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
0/40% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
San Francisco, California
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Chris Cariaso19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 36BODY21%4 of 8LEGS42%8 of 8
John Moraga11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 21BODY45%5 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 52
Sig.
strikes
11 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:02
Control
0:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Chris Cariaso17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 47BODY29%5 of 10LEGS12%2 of 2
John Moraga11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 23BODY18%2 of 6LEGS18%2 of 3
17 of 59
Sig.
strikes
11 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:24
Control
1:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 31:11 of action1 sub attemptEnded 1:11
Chris Cariaso3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 10BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
John Moraga4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 8BODY25%1 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
3 of 11
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 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

John Moraga

Round
3
Clock
1:11
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: Chris Tognoni.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Chris Cariaso

1.11takedowns / 15 min
1.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.62 / 15m
2.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.70 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
23%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

John Moraga

0.62takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Chris Cariaso↓ −14.7pp
open 58.3%close 43.6%
John Moraga↑ +14.7pp
open 41.7%close 56.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Cariaso opened at 58.3% and closed at 43.6% (−14.7pp), with John Moraga 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
Chris Cariaso-16512358.3%43.6%−14.7pp
John Moraga125-13841.7%56.4%+14.7pp
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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