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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · John Moraga vs Sergio Pettis
From the tape · 15 Jan 2017

John Moraga vs Sergio Pettis

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

Sergio Pettis beat John Moraga

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

JM
Red corner JohnMoragaPhoenix, Arizona
VSOn the tape
SP
Blue corner SergioPettisRoufusport · Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Flyweight3 rounds15 Jan 2017
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Moraga.
19-7
Record
18-5
32
Age
−9 yr23
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
66″
Reach
+3″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+29
UFC bouts
7
+80%4/580% of wins
Finishes
0/50% of wins
Phoenix, Arizona
From
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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
John Moraga16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 40BODY6%1 of 4LEGS12%2 of 3
Sergio Pettis19 sig landed
HEAD95%18 of 67BODY0%0 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
16 of 47
Sig.
strikes
19 of 70
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:22
Control
0:25
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraga firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Dennis O'Connell9–10
Round 25:00 of action
John Moraga9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 34BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
Sergio Pettis15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 49BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 37
Sig.
strikes
15 of 51
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:03
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraga firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Jeff Mullen9–10Dennis O'Connell9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Moraga8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 33BODY12%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Sergio Pettis14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 36BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 36
Sig.
strikes
14 of 38
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:18
Control
0:59
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Moraga firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Jeff Mullen10–9Dennis O'Connell9–10

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 · Herb Dean
John MoragaSergio Pettis
Official totals — John Moraga first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Dennis O'Connell27–30

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 — 16 scored, John Moraga first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Youngs FanSided.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pettis · 50%29-28 Pettis · 26%30-28 Pettis · 12%29-28 Moraga · 12%

34 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.

John Moraga

0.62takedowns / 15 min
0.62 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.85 / 15m
2.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.12 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
40%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sergio Pettis

0.85takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

John Moraga↑ +2.7pp
open 39.3%close 42.0%
Sergio Pettis↓ −2.7pp
open 60.7%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Moraga opened at 39.3% and closed at 42.0% (+2.7pp), with Sergio Pettis 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
John Moraga14013039.3%42.0%+2.7pp
Sergio Pettis-180-15060.7%58.0%−2.7pp
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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