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Events · UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Josh Emmett vs Desmond Green
From the tape · 8 Apr 2017

Josh Emmett vs Desmond Green

UFC 210: Cormier vs. Johnson 2 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Result

Desmond Green beat Josh Emmett

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

Red corner JoshEmmett“CC0”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
DG
Blue corner DesmondGreen“The Predator”Kill Cliff FC · Rochester, New York
Lightweight3 rounds8 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Emmett.
19-7
Record
23-8
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Sacramento, California
From
Rochester, New York
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
Josh Emmett17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 37BODY24%4 of 6LEGS47%8 of 8
Desmond Green17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 30BODY6%1 of 2LEGS18%3 of 4
17 of 51
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Emmett firstDouglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Josh Emmett10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 28BODY40%4 of 10LEGS20%2 of 5
Desmond Green23 sig landed
HEAD91%21 of 47BODY4%1 of 3LEGS4%1 of 2
10 of 43
Sig.
strikes
23 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Emmett firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Emmett14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 34BODY14%2 of 4LEGS57%8 of 10
Desmond Green17 sig landed
HEAD100%17 of 36BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
14 of 48
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:34
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Emmett firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
Josh EmmettDesmond Green
Official totals — Josh Emmett first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 16 scored, Josh Emmett first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Green · 44%29-28 Green · 34%29-28 Emmett · 16%30-28 Green · 3%30-27 Emmett · 3%

32 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.

Josh Emmett

1.07takedowns / 15 min
1.07 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.62 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.24 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
50%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Desmond Green

1.62takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Josh Emmett↑ +7.6pp
open 56.7%close 64.3%
Desmond Green↓ −7.6pp
open 43.3%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Emmett opened at 56.7% and closed at 64.3% (+7.6pp), with Desmond Green 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
Josh Emmett-155-20056.7%64.3%+7.6pp
Desmond Green11517043.3%35.7%−7.6pp
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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