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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Marlon Vera vs Guangyou Ning
From the tape · 26 Nov 2016

Marlon Vera vs Guangyou Ning

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Marlon Vera beat Guangyou Ning

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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.

Red corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
VSOn the tape
GN
Blue corner GuangyouNing“Smasher”Tiger Muay Thai · Cangzhou, Hebei
Featherweight3 rounds26 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Ning.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Vera.
23-12-1
Record
5-4-1
−11 yr23
Age
34
+4″5' 8"
Height
5' 4"
+6″70″
Reach
64″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
3
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Team Oyama
Gym
Tiger Muay Thai
Chone, Manabi
From
Cangzhou, Hebei
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 action2 sub attempts
Marlon Vera3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY33%1 of 2LEGS67%2 of 4
Guangyou Ning5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 8BODY40%2 of 2LEGS60%3 of 6
3 of 10
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:42
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstBarry Foley10–9Charlie Keech10–9Albert Shen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Marlon Vera6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 9BODY33%2 of 3LEGS33%2 of 2
Guangyou Ning27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 29BODY4%1 of 2LEGS44%12 of 16
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
27 of 47
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
2:22
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 15
Judges · this round · Vera firstBarry Foley9–10Charlie Keech9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD VeraEnded 5:00
Marlon Vera27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 31BODY19%5 of 11LEGS15%4 of 6
Guangyou Ning14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 30BODY14%2 of 4LEGS21%3 of 10
27 of 48
Sig.
strikes
14 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:49
Control
0:26
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Vera firstBarry Foley10–9Charlie Keech10–9Albert Shen10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Steve Perceval
Marlon VeraGuangyou Ning
Official totals — Marlon Vera first
JudgeTotal
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide29–28
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% wide29–28

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 — 15 scored, Marlon Vera first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vera · 86%29-27 Vera · 14%

14 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.

Marlon Vera

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.09 / 15m
1.21 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.18 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
50%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Guangyou Ning

1.09takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Marlon Veraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 50.8%
Guangyou Ningclose only
no opening line on recordclose 49.2%
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: Marlon Vera 50.8%, Guangyou Ning 49.2%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Marlon Vera-11350.8%
Guangyou Ning-115-10649.2%
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 Marlon Vera, 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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