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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski · Jon Tuck vs Josh Emmett
From the tape · 8 May 2016

Jon Tuck vs Josh Emmett

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs Arlovski · Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Result

Josh Emmett beat Jon Tuck

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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 JonTuck“Super Saiyan”Kings MMA · Chalan Pago
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoshEmmett“CC0”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
Lightweight3 rounds8 May 2016
10-5
Record
19-7
31
Age
31
+5″5' 11"
Height
5' 6"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kings MMA
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Chalan Pago
From
Sacramento, 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
Jon Tuck12 sig landed
HEAD33%4 of 34BODY17%2 of 4LEGS50%6 of 8
Josh Emmett17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 26BODY18%3 of 7LEGS47%8 of 9
12 of 46
Sig.
strikes
17 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tuck firstBen Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Tuck19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 52BODY21%4 of 5LEGS21%4 of 4
Josh Emmett18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 47BODY22%4 of 10LEGS11%2 of 4
19 of 61
Sig.
strikes
18 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tuck firstBen Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner10–9Maciej Motylewski9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Tuck22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 64BODY27%6 of 7LEGS9%2 of 2
Josh Emmett19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 41BODY21%4 of 6LEGS5%1 of 2
22 of 73
Sig.
strikes
19 of 49
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:01
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tuck firstBen Cartlidge10–9Andreas Grüner10–9Maciej Motylewski10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Rich Mitchell
Jon TuckJosh Emmett
Official totals — Jon Tuck first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide29–28
Maciej Motylewski28–29

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, Jon Tuck first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dana Becker FightLine.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Gabriel Gelli mmabrasil.com.br28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Emmett · 65%29-28 Tuck · 15%29-27 Tuck · 4%30-27 Emmett · 4%29-24 Emmett · 4%

26 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 Tuck

0.42takedowns / 15 min
0.42 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.07 / 15m
1.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.97 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
36%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Josh Emmett

1.07takedowns / 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 (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 Tuck↓ −6.5pp
open 55.8%close 49.2%
Josh Emmett↑ +6.5pp
open 44.2%close 50.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Tuck opened at 55.8% and closed at 49.2% (−6.5pp), with Josh Emmett 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 Tuck-150-10655.8%49.2%−6.5pp
Josh Emmett110-11344.2%50.8%+6.5pp
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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