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History · 2013 · UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga · Aaron Riley vs Justin Salas
From the tape · 27 Jul 2013

Aaron Riley vs Justin Salas

UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga · Seattle, Washington, USA
Result

Justin Salas beat Aaron Riley

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Randy Corley

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.

AR
Red corner AaronRileyJackson-Wink MMA · Tell City, Indiana
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner JustinSalas“J-Bomb”Grudge Training Center · Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Lightweight3 rounds27 Jul 2013
The story going in
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Salas.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Riley.
  • Carries 60 points more takedown defence than Salas.
30-14-1
Record
12-7
32
Age
−1 yr31
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+68
UFC bouts
2
0/30% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Grudge Training Center
Tell City, Indiana
From
Wheat Ridge, Colorado
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
Aaron Riley8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 39BODY38%3 of 10LEGS25%2 of 4
Justin Salas18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 39BODY6%1 of 4LEGS17%3 of 5
8 of 53
Sig.
strikes
18 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
0:06
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Riley firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9Lamont Nelson10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Aaron Riley8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 42BODY12%1 of 8LEGS25%2 of 2
Justin Salas20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 41BODY20%4 of 6LEGS20%4 of 5
8 of 52
Sig.
strikes
20 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
0:24
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 1
Judges · this round · Riley firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Lamont Nelson9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aaron Riley10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 42BODY40%4 of 16LEGS40%4 of 9
Justin Salas16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 35BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 3
10 of 67
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riley firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10Lamont Nelson10–9

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 · Randy Corley
Aaron RileyJustin Salas
Official totals — Aaron Riley first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Lamont Nelson29–28

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 — 10 scored, Aaron Riley first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Salas · 73%30-27 Salas · 18%30-28 Salas · 9%

11 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.

Aaron Riley

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.43 / 15m
3.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
12.15 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
20%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Justin Salas

2.43takedowns / 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.

Aaron Riley↓ −6.4pp
open 37.9%close 31.5%
Justin Salas↑ +6.4pp
open 62.1%close 68.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aaron Riley opened at 37.9% and closed at 31.5% (−6.4pp), with Justin Salas 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
Aaron Riley15020737.9%31.5%−6.4pp
Justin Salas-190-24262.1%68.5%+6.4pp
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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