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Events · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Joe Lauzon vs Stevie Ray
From the tape · 22 Apr 2017

Joe Lauzon vs Stevie Ray

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Lobov · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Stevie Ray beat Joe Lauzon

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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
SR
Blue corner StevieRay“Braveheart”Elite Team · California
Lightweight3 rounds22 Apr 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 12 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 23 UFC bouts deep — 18 more than Ray.
28-16
Record
23-9
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1823
UFC bouts
5
+36%12/1486% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Lauzon MMA
Gym
Elite Team
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
From
California
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 action1 sub attempt
Joe Lauzon19 sig landed
HEAD100%19 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Stevie Ray4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 2BODY50%2 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
19 of 21
Sig.
strikes
4 of 5
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:27
Control
0:03
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 18
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstChris Lee10–8Jeff Mullen10–9Dave Tirelli10–8
Round 25:00 of action
Joe Lauzon12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 23BODY17%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Stevie Ray28 sig landed
HEAD79%22 of 57BODY21%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
28 of 64
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:56
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstChris Lee9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Joe Lauzon15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 28BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Stevie Ray77 sig landed
HEAD92%71 of 120BODY8%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 30
Sig.
strikes
77 of 127
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:49
Control
0:32
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 13Ground 21
Judges · this round · Lauzon firstChris Lee8–10Jeff Mullen8–10Dave 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

Majority Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Joe LauzonStevie Ray
Official totals — Joe Lauzon first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide27–28
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide27–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide28–28

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 — 17 scored, Joe Lauzon first · unofficial

Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com27–28
Youngs FanSided.com27–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–28
John Pollock Fight Network27–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–28
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com27–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–28
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–28
MM AMania.com28–28
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Phil Murphy ESPN28–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–28
MM AJunkie.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

28-27 Ray · 24%29-27 Lauzon · 12%28-27 Lauzon · 6%29-28 Lauzon · 6%

160 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
0.75 / 15m
5.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.63 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
46%
2.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Stevie Ray

0.75takedowns / 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↓ −11.0pp
open 50.9%close 39.9%
Stevie Ray↑ +11.0pp
open 49.1%close 60.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joe Lauzon opened at 50.9% and closed at 39.9% (−11.0pp), with Stevie Ray 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-12514350.9%39.9%−11.0pp
Stevie Ray-115-16349.1%60.1%+11.0pp
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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