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Events · UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 · George Sotiropoulos vs KJ Noons
From the tape · 19 Oct 2013

George Sotiropoulos vs KJ Noons

UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

KJ Noons beat George Sotiropoulos

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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.

GS
Red corner GeorgeSotiropoulosAmerican Top Team · Geelong, Victoria
VSOn the tape
KN
Blue corner KJNoons“King”
Lightweight3 rounds19 Oct 2013
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Sotiropoulos.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
14-7
Record
13-9
36
Age
−6 yr30
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+910
UFC bouts
1
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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
George Sotiropoulos6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 27BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
KJ Noons21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 23BODY57%12 of 21LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 29
Sig.
strikes
21 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato9–10Don Turnage9–10Troy Wincapaw9–10
Round 25:00 of action
George Sotiropoulos20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 70BODY15%3 of 3LEGS20%4 of 4
KJ Noons14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 42BODY71%10 of 17LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 77
Sig.
strikes
14 of 59
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:26
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato10–9Don Turnage9–10Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
George Sotiropoulos24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 79BODY4%1 of 4LEGS38%9 of 10
KJ Noons21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 48BODY38%8 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 93
Sig.
strikes
21 of 64
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato9–10Don Turnage9–10Troy Wincapaw9–10

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
George SotiropoulosKJ Noons
Official totals — George Sotiropoulos first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Don Turnage27–30
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, George Sotiropoulos first · unofficial

Chase Raymond BJPenn.com27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Gregg Doyel CBSSports.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Noons · 67%29-28 Sotiropoulos · 21%30-28 Noons · 4%

24 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.

George Sotiropoulos

2.32takedowns / 15 min
2.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.08 / 15m
7.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.40 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
20%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

KJ Noons

0.08takedowns / 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.

George Sotiropoulosclose only
no opening line on recordclose 41.2%
KJ Noonsclose only
no opening line on recordclose 58.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: George Sotiropoulos 41.2%, KJ Noons 58.8%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
George Sotiropoulos17513541.2%
KJ Noons-15558.8%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for K.J. Noons, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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