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Events · UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic · John Moraga vs Willie Gates
From the tape · 13 Dec 2014

John Moraga vs Willie Gates

UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

John Moraga beat Willie Gates

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
4:06
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

JM
Red corner JohnMoragaPhoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
WG
Blue corner WillieGatesPinnacle MMA · Fontana, California
Flyweight3 rounds13 Dec 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Moraga.
  • Carries 18 points more striking defence than Gates.
19-7
Record
12-7
30
Age
−3 yr27
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
66″
Reach
+6″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Fontana, California
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⚡ 1 KD Gates1 sub attempt
John Moraga14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 14BODY21%3 of 6LEGS57%8 of 13
Willie Gates13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 36BODY8%1 of 1LEGS31%4 of 10
14 of 33
Sig.
strikes
13 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:25
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Round 25:00 of action
John Moraga13 sig landed
HEAD15%2 of 15BODY38%5 of 6LEGS46%6 of 9
Willie Gates5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 14BODY80%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 2
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:47
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 34:06 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:06
John Moraga29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 26BODY21%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Willie Gates4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY75%3 of 3LEGS25%1 of 1
29 of 32
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 25
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 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
4:06
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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

John Moraga

0.62takedowns / 15 min
0.62 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
23%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Willie Gates

0.00takedowns / 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.

John Moraga↑ +7.1pp
open 75.2%close 82.3%
Willie Gates↓ −7.1pp
open 24.8%close 17.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Moraga opened at 75.2% and closed at 82.3% (+7.1pp), with Willie Gates 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
John Moraga-400-56075.2%82.3%+7.1pp
Willie Gates28044824.8%17.7%−7.1pp
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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