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History · 2013 · UFC on FOX: Johnson vs Moraga · Rory MacDonald vs Jake Ellenberger
From the tape · 27 Jul 2013

Rory MacDonald vs Jake Ellenberger

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

Rory MacDonald beat Jake Ellenberger

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RM
Red corner RoryMacDonald“Red King”Tristar Gym · Kelowna, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
JE
Blue corner JakeEllenberger“The Juggernaut”Reign MMA · Omaha, Nebraska
Welterweight3 rounds27 Jul 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
19-4
Record
31-15
−4 yr24
Age
28
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
+5″76″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+410
3/560% of wins
Finishes
+2%5/862% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
Reign MMA
Kelowna, British Columbia
From
Omaha, Nebraska
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
Rory MacDonald15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 34BODY13%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Ellenberger5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 27BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 37
Sig.
strikes
5 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · MacDonald firstLester Griffin10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rory MacDonald13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 33BODY15%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Ellenberger4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 33BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 2
13 of 37
Sig.
strikes
4 of 36
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:03
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · MacDonald firstLester Griffin10–9Dave Hagen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rory MacDonald18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 35BODY28%5 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Jake Ellenberger10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 29BODY10%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 44
Sig.
strikes
10 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:01
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · MacDonald firstLester Griffin10–9Dave Hagen10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Rory MacDonaldJake Ellenberger
Official totals — Rory MacDonald first
JudgeTotal
Lester Griffin2.0 avg spread · 47% wide30–27
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27

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 — 11 scored, Rory MacDonald first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 MacDonald · 50%29-28 MacDonald · 22%30-28 MacDonald · 12%29-27 MacDonald · 3%

32 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.

Rory MacDonald

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.04 / 15m
3.77 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.34 / 15m
47%
ACCURACY
47%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Jake Ellenberger

2.04takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Rory MacDonald↑ +9.5pp
open 59.2%close 68.6%
Jake Ellenberger↓ −9.5pp
open 40.8%close 31.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rory MacDonald opened at 59.2% and closed at 68.6% (+9.5pp), with Jake Ellenberger 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
Rory MacDonald-170-24759.2%68.6%+9.5pp
Jake Ellenberger13020740.8%31.4%−9.5pp
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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