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Events · UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira · Darren Till vs Jessin Ayari
From the tape · 28 May 2017

Darren Till vs Jessin Ayari

UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Darren Till beat Jessin Ayari

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Neil Hall

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.

DT
Red corner DarrenTill“The Gorilla”Liverpool, Merseyside
VSOn the tape
JA
Blue corner JessinAyariNuremberg, Bavaria
Welterweight3 rounds28 May 2017
The story going in
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Ayari.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Till.
18-5-1
Record
16-6
24
Age
24
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+1″74″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Liverpool, Merseyside
From
Nuremberg, Bavaria
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
Darren Till6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 20BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
Jessin Ayari8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 31BODY12%1 of 1LEGS25%2 of 2
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
8 of 34
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:21
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Till firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mans Nilsson10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Till1 sub attempt
Darren Till17 sig landed
HEAD100%17 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Jessin Ayari12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 28BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 26
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
2:36
Control
0:23
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 4
Judges · this round · Till firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mans Nilsson10–8Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Darren Till8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 19BODY12%1 of 1LEGS12%1 of 1
Jessin Ayari8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 46BODY38%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 21
Sig.
strikes
8 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:23
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Till firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mans Nilsson9–10Anders Ohlsson10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Neil Hall
Darren TillJessin Ayari
Official totals — Darren Till first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Mans Nilsson29–27
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide30–27

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, Darren Till first · unofficial

MM AMania.com30–26
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–26
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
John Pollock Fight Network30–26
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–27
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Youngs FanSided.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Till · 65%29-28 Till · 20%30-25 Till · 5%29-27 Till · 5%30-27 Ayari · 5%

20 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.

Darren Till

0.55takedowns / 15 min
0.55 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
46%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jessin Ayari

0.00takedowns / 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.

Darren Till↑ +2.7pp
open 68.4%close 71.1%
Jessin Ayari↓ −2.7pp
open 31.6%close 28.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Darren Till opened at 68.4% and closed at 71.1% (+2.7pp), with Jessin Ayari 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
Darren Till-275-27568.4%71.1%+2.7pp
Jessin Ayari19523531.6%28.9%−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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