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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Joe Lauzon vs Marcin Held
From the tape · 15 Jan 2017

Joe Lauzon vs Marcin Held

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Joe Lauzon beat Marcin Held

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

JL
Red corner JoeLauzonLauzon MMA · Bridgewater, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MarcinHeldAnkos MMA · Tychy
Lightweight3 rounds15 Jan 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 12 of 13 UFC wins.
  • 22 UFC bouts deep — 21 more than Held.
28-16
Record
23-7
32
Age
−8 yr24
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2122
UFC bouts
1
Lauzon MMA
Gym
Ankos MMA
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
From
Tychy
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
Joe Lauzon15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 31BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Marcin Held6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 22BODY0%0 of 2LEGS17%1 of 3
15 of 33
Sig.
strikes
6 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:32
Control
2:32
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Joe Lauzon0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 6 thrown

Marcin Held2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 9BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:35
Control
3:39
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen10–9Marcos Rosales10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joe Lauzon5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 21BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Marcin Held15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 39BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 23
Sig.
strikes
15 of 41
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:30
Control
2:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstDerek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Marcos Rosales9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Joe LauzonMarcin Held
Official totals — Joe Lauzon first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% 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 — 18 scored, Joe Lauzon first · unofficial

Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Mateusz Smoter MMARocks.pl28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
MM AMania.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Held · 59%30-27 Held · 28%29-28 Lauzon · 5%30-28 Held · 5%

383 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.

Joe Lauzon

2.39takedowns / 15 min
2.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.46 / 15m
5.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.35 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
46%
2.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Marcin Held

2.46takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Joe Lauzon↓ −2.1pp
open 57.5%close 55.5%
Marcin Held↑ +2.1pp
open 42.5%close 44.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joe Lauzon opened at 57.5% and closed at 55.5% (−2.1pp), with Marcin Held 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
Joe Lauzon-160-13657.5%55.5%−2.1pp
Marcin Held12011642.5%44.5%+2.1pp
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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