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Events · The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale · George Sullivan vs Dominic Waters
From the tape · 12 Jul 2015

George Sullivan vs Dominic Waters

The Ultimate Fighter: American Top Team vs. Blackzilians Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

George Sullivan beat Dominic Waters

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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 GeorgeSullivan“The Silencer”Pellegrino MMA · Belmar, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
DW
Blue corner DominicWaters“Sho Nuff”Jackson-Wink MMA · Santa Rosa, California
Welterweight3 rounds12 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Lands 3.0 more significant strikes a minute than Waters.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sullivan.
17-7
Record
9-5
34
Age
−8 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+6″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Pellegrino MMA
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Belmar, New Jersey
From
Santa Rosa, California
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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
George Sullivan38 sig landed
HEAD55%21 of 47BODY29%11 of 13LEGS16%6 of 7
Dominic Waters9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 42BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
38 of 67
Sig.
strikes
9 of 44
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:52
Control
1:18
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 8Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
George Sullivan12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 10BODY50%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 2
Dominic Waters1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
12 of 18
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:45
Control
0:51
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
George Sullivan4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 8BODY25%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Dominic Waters3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 11
Sig.
strikes
3 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:24
Control
3:16
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Yves Lavigne
Official totals — George Sullivan first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–27
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–25
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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 Sullivan

1.37takedowns / 15 min
1.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.07 / 15m
6.85 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.83 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
52%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Dominic Waters

4.07takedowns / 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.

George Sullivan↑ +14.3pp
open 54.3%close 68.6%
Dominic Waters↓ −14.3pp
open 45.7%close 31.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

George Sullivan opened at 54.3% and closed at 68.6% (+14.3pp), with Dominic Waters 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
George Sullivan-130-24554.3%68.6%+14.3pp
Dominic Waters11020745.7%31.4%−14.3pp
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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