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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Richard Walsh vs Jonathan Meunier
From the tape · 26 Nov 2016

Richard Walsh vs Jonathan Meunier

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

Jonathan Meunier beat Richard Walsh

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

RW
Red corner RichardWalsh“Filthy Rich”VT1 Martial Arts Academy · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JonathanMeunier“District”Tristar Quebec · Quebec City, Quebec
Welterweight3 rounds26 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Meunier.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Walsh.
9-5
Record
8-1
−2 yr27
Age
29
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+45
UFC bouts
1
VT1 Martial Arts Academy
Gym
Tristar Quebec
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Quebec City, Quebec
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
Richard Walsh7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 21BODY14%1 of 2LEGS71%5 of 9
Jonathan Meunier22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 26BODY9%2 of 2LEGS59%13 of 18
7 of 32
Sig.
strikes
22 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:26
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 1
Judges · this round · Walsh firstBen Cartlidge9–10Anthony Dimitriou9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Richard Walsh4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 30BODY50%2 of 3LEGS25%1 of 1
Jonathan Meunier34 sig landed
HEAD56%19 of 49BODY26%9 of 12LEGS18%6 of 9
4 of 34
Sig.
strikes
34 of 70
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:26
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Walsh firstBen Cartlidge9–10Anthony Dimitriou9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Richard Walsh7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 18BODY29%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Jonathan Meunier18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 25BODY17%3 of 8LEGS11%2 of 6
7 of 22
Sig.
strikes
18 of 39
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:26
Control
0:44
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Walsh firstBen Cartlidge10–9Anthony Dimitriou9–10Albert Shen9–10

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 · Steve Perceval
Richard WalshJonathan Meunier
Official totals — Richard Walsh first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Anthony Dimitriou2.4 avg spread · 53% wide27–30
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% 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, Richard Walsh first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Meunier · 67%29-28 Meunier · 33%

9 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.

Richard Walsh

1.55takedowns / 15 min
1.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.58 / 15m
3.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.76 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
33%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jonathan Meunier

0.58takedowns / 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.

Richard Walsh↑ +4.7pp
open 50.0%close 54.7%
Jonathan Meunier↓ −4.7pp
open 50.0%close 45.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Richard Walsh opened at 50.0% and closed at 54.7% (+4.7pp), with Jonathan Meunier 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
Richard Walsh-120-13250.0%54.7%+4.7pp
Jonathan Meunier-12011250.0%45.3%−4.7pp
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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