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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee · Josh Thomson vs Tony Ferguson
From the tape · 15 Jul 2015

Josh Thomson vs Tony Ferguson

UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee · San Diego, California, USA
Result

Tony Ferguson beat Josh Thomson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-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.

JT
Red corner JoshThomson“The Punk”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
TF
Blue corner TonyFerguson“El Cucuy”Knuckleheadz MMA · Oxnard, California
Lightweight3 rounds15 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
22-9
Record
26-11
36
Age
−5 yr31
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+5″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+39
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+8%6/875% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Knuckleheadz MMA
San Jose, California
From
Oxnard, 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 — 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
Josh Thomson18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 24BODY39%7 of 9LEGS11%2 of 3
Tony Ferguson15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 19BODY20%3 of 15LEGS47%7 of 10
18 of 36
Sig.
strikes
15 of 44
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:02
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thomson firstMike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Ferguson2 sub attempts
Josh Thomson8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 24BODY12%1 of 2LEGS12%1 of 2
Tony Ferguson43 sig landed
HEAD84%36 of 45BODY12%5 of 9LEGS5%2 of 2
8 of 28
Sig.
strikes
43 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:13
Control
1:39
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 21
Judges · this round · Thomson firstMike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Thomson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 29BODY57%4 of 6LEGS14%1 of 1
Tony Ferguson25 sig landed
HEAD40%10 of 27BODY28%7 of 13LEGS32%8 of 9
7 of 36
Sig.
strikes
25 of 49
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:18
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thomson firstMike Beltran9–10Derek Cleary9–10

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
Josh ThomsonTony Ferguson
Official totals — Josh Thomson first
JudgeTotal
Mike Beltran27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30

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, Josh Thomson first · unofficial

MM AMania.com25–30
Severe MMA.com26–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
John Pollock Fight Network26–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com26–30
Cage Pages.com26–30
MM ABrasil.com.br26–30
Wrestling Observer26–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Danny Segura dannysegura.tv27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Ferguson · 54%30-27 Ferguson · 19%30-25 Ferguson · 10%29-27 Ferguson · 7%29-28 Ferguson · 7%

72 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.

Josh Thomson

1.92takedowns / 15 min
1.92 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.39 / 15m
4.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.11 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
35%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Tony Ferguson

0.39takedowns / 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.

Josh Thomson↓ −13.2pp
open 41.7%close 28.5%
Tony Ferguson↑ +13.2pp
open 58.3%close 71.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Thomson opened at 41.7% and closed at 28.5% (−13.2pp), with Tony Ferguson 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
Josh Thomson12524041.7%28.5%−13.2pp
Tony Ferguson-165-28458.3%71.5%+13.2pp
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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