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Events · UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey · TJ Dillashaw vs John Lineker
From the tape · 30 Dec 2016

TJ Dillashaw vs John Lineker

UFC 207: Nunes vs. Rousey · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

TJ Dillashaw beat John Lineker

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · 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.

TD
Red corner TJDillashaw
VSOn the tape
JL
Blue corner JohnLineker“Hands of Stone”Paranagua, Parana
Bantamweight3 rounds30 Dec 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lineker.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
18-5
Record
31-9
30
Age
−4 yr26
+3″5' 6"
Height
5' 3"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
12
+7%6/967% of wins
Finishes
6/1060% of wins
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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
TJ Dillashaw13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 21BODY31%4 of 5LEGS23%3 of 4
John Lineker12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 28BODY50%6 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 40
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:34
Control
0:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
TJ Dillashaw37 sig landed
HEAD89%33 of 47BODY11%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
John Lineker9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 12BODY22%2 of 4LEGS11%1 of 1
37 of 51
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:46
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 33
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–8Dave Hagen10–8Chris Lee10–8
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
TJ Dillashaw21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 30BODY10%2 of 3LEGS24%5 of 5
John Lineker17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 13BODY65%11 of 20LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 38
Sig.
strikes
17 of 33
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:33
Control
0:13
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dillashaw firstSal D'Amato10–9Dave Hagen10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Herb Dean
TJ DillashawJohn Lineker
Official totals — TJ Dillashaw first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–26
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–26

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 — 21 scored, TJ Dillashaw first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–26
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Severe MMA.com30–26
John Pollock Fight Network30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–26
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br30–26
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–26
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–26
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–26
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–26
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Dillashaw · 71%30-27 Dillashaw · 16%30-25 Dillashaw · 5%30-27 Lineker · 3%30-28 Dillashaw · 3%

77 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.

TJ Dillashaw

1.56takedowns / 15 min
1.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
5.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.97 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
58%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

John Lineker

0.56takedowns / 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.

TJ Dillashawclose only
no opening line on recordclose 66.4%
John Linekerclose only
no opening line on recordclose 33.6%
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: TJ Dillashaw 66.4%, John Lineker 33.6%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
TJ Dillashaw-22266.4%
John Lineker15018733.6%
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 T.J. Dillashaw, 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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