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History · 2017 · UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson
From the tape · 4 Mar 2017

Tyron Woodley vs Stephen Thompson

UFC 209: Woodley vs. Thompson 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tyron Woodley beat Stephen Thompson

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

TW
Red corner TyronWoodley“The Chosen One”American Top Team Evolution · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
ST
Blue corner StephenThompson“Wonderboy”Simpsonville, South Carolina
Welterweight Title5 rounds4 Mar 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 24 points more takedown defence than Thompson.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Woodley.
19-7-1
Record
17-9-1
34
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
+3″6' 0"
74″
Reach
+1″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+110
+21%5/683% of wins
Finishes
5/862% of wins
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Simpsonville, South Carolina
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Tyron Woodley5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY20%1 of 3LEGS80%4 of 4
Stephen Thompson6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 15BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
6 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Tyron Woodley8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 9BODY38%3 of 5LEGS25%2 of 2
Stephen Thompson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 19BODY38%3 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
8 of 16
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Tyron Woodley15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 20BODY47%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Stephen Thompson14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 18BODY64%9 of 9LEGS7%1 of 1
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
14 of 28
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:48
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Tyron Woodley9 sig landed
HEAD11%1 of 12BODY89%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Stephen Thompson12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 29BODY8%1 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
9 of 22
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 55:00 of action⚡ 1 KD WoodleyEnded 5:00
Tyron Woodley17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 43BODY6%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Stephen Thompson13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 34BODY23%3 of 5LEGS15%2 of 2
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:10
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodley firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–8Chris 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

Majority Decision

Referee · John McCarthy
Tyron WoodleyStephen Thompson
Official totals — Tyron Woodley first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide47–47
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide48–47

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 — 19 scored, Tyron Woodley first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–48
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–48
John Pollock Fight Network49–48
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com48–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com48–48
MM AJunkie.com48–48
Youngs FanSided.com47–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–47
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–47
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com47–47
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com47–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com47–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
MM AMania.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Thompson · 59%48-47 Woodley · 10%49-48 Woodley · 3%

1,421 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.

Tyron Woodley

1.06takedowns / 15 min
1.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.23 / 15m
2.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.66 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Stephen Thompson

0.23takedowns / 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.

Tyron Woodley→ no move
open 45.9%close 45.9%
Stephen Thompson→ no move
open 54.1%close 54.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Tyron Woodley opened at 45.9% and closed at 45.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp 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
Tyron Woodley10510945.9%45.9%+0.0pp
Stephen Thompson-135-12954.1%54.1%−0.0pp
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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