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History · 2013 · UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson · Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson
From the tape · 21 Sep 2013

Jon Jones vs Alexander Gustafsson

UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Jon Jones beat Alexander Gustafsson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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.

Red corner JonJones“Bones”
VSOn the tape
AG
Blue corner AlexanderGustafsson“The Mauler”Stockholm, Stockholm County
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds21 Sep 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
28-1
Record
18-8
26
Age
26
6' 4"
Height
+1″6' 5"
+5″84″
Reach
79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+513
UFC bouts
8
+4%9/1275% of wins
Finishes
5/771% of wins
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Jon Jones28 sig landed
HEAD18%5 of 12BODY29%8 of 9LEGS54%15 of 18
Alexander Gustafsson19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 30BODY21%4 of 11LEGS37%7 of 7
28 of 39
Sig.
strikes
19 of 48
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
0:13
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand9–10Douglas Crosby9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Jones26 sig landed
HEAD19%5 of 13BODY27%7 of 12LEGS54%14 of 17
Alexander Gustafsson15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 38BODY20%3 of 9LEGS20%3 of 4
26 of 42
Sig.
strikes
15 of 51
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:02
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Jon Jones29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 22BODY28%8 of 8LEGS34%10 of 12
Alexander Gustafsson26 sig landed
HEAD54%14 of 39BODY38%10 of 20LEGS8%2 of 5
29 of 42
Sig.
strikes
26 of 64
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:05
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand9–10Douglas Crosby10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jon Jones27 sig landed
HEAD63%17 of 36BODY11%3 of 5LEGS26%7 of 8
Alexander Gustafsson26 sig landed
HEAD58%15 of 45BODY35%9 of 13LEGS8%2 of 2
27 of 49
Sig.
strikes
26 of 60
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Jones24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 32BODY8%2 of 3LEGS29%7 of 10
Alexander Gustafsson24 sig landed
HEAD71%17 of 52BODY29%7 of 12LEGS0%0 of 1
24 of 45
Sig.
strikes
24 of 65
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstRichard Bertrand10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Jon JonesAlexander Gustafsson
Official totals — Jon Jones first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide48–47
Douglas Crosby48–47
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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 — 14 scored, Jon Jones first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
Fight Metric.com49–48
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca48–47
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com48–47
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com48–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AWeekly.com48–47
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com48–47
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com48–47
Chase Raymond BJPenn.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Gustafsson · 37%48-47 Jones · 36%49-46 Jones · 10%49-46 Gustafsson · 3%

3,485 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.

Jon Jones

1.89takedowns / 15 min
1.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.53 / 15m
4.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.92 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
39%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Alexander Gustafsson

1.53takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Jon Jones↑ +4.1pp
open 82.1%close 86.2%
Alexander Gustafsson↓ −4.1pp
open 17.9%close 13.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Jones opened at 82.1% and closed at 86.2% (+4.1pp), with Alexander Gustafsson 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
Jon Jones-675-82082.1%86.2%+4.1pp
Alexander Gustafsson42560117.9%13.8%−4.1pp
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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