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History · 2016 · UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · James Moontasri vs Alex Morono
From the tape · 17 Dec 2016

James Moontasri vs Alex Morono

UFC on FOX: VanZant vs. Waterson · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Alex Morono beat James Moontasri

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

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Red corner JamesMoontasri“Moon Walker”Black House · Los Angeles, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexMorono“The Great White”Houston, Texas
Welterweight3 rounds17 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Morono.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Moontasri.
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Morono.
9-5
Record
24-13
28
Age
−2 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Los Angeles, California
From
Houston, Texas
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
James Moontasri15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 9BODY53%8 of 11LEGS33%5 of 5
Alex Morono18 sig landed
HEAD28%5 of 22BODY11%2 of 4LEGS61%11 of 13
15 of 25
Sig.
strikes
18 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 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 action
James Moontasri12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 12BODY75%9 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Alex Morono30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 47BODY7%2 of 2LEGS20%6 of 7
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
30 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:19
Control
0:33
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 6Ground 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
James Moontasri19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 29BODY37%7 of 14LEGS16%3 of 3
Alex Morono63 sig landed
HEAD92%58 of 85BODY6%4 of 5LEGS2%1 of 1
19 of 46
Sig.
strikes
63 of 91
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:21
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 50Clinch 13Ground 0
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — James Moontasri first
JudgeTotal
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29
Mike Guingona28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

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.

Media cards — 16 scored, James Moontasri first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com27–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com27–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–29
MM AMania.com27–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Diego Peixoto MMABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN27–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morono · 50%29-27 Morono · 36%30-29 Moontasri · 4%30-27 Morono · 4%29-28 Moontasri · 4%

22 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.

James Moontasri

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.33 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
24%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Alex Morono

0.32takedowns / 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.

James Moontasri→ no move
open 55.8%close 55.3%
Alex Morono→ no move
open 44.2%close 44.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. James Moontasri opened at 55.8% and closed at 55.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
James Moontasri-150-13555.8%55.3%−0.5pp
Alex Morono11011544.2%44.7%+0.5pp
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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