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Events · UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio · James Mulheron vs Justin Willis
From the tape · 16 Jul 2017

James Mulheron vs Justin Willis

UFC Fight Night: Nelson vs. Ponzinibbio · Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Result

Justin Willis beat James Mulheron

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 JamesMulheronSouth Shields, Tyne and Wear
VSOn the tape
JW
Blue corner JustinWillis“Big Pretty”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Heavyweight3 rounds16 Jul 2017
11-2
Record
8-2
29
Age
29
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
73″
Reach
+5″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
South Shields, Tyne and Wear
From
San Jose, 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 action
James Mulheron13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 21BODY54%7 of 12LEGS15%2 of 2
Justin Willis15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 23BODY13%2 of 4LEGS13%2 of 3
13 of 35
Sig.
strikes
15 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:38
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mulheron firstPawel Harasim9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
James Mulheron8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 31BODY50%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
Justin Willis22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 25BODY9%2 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
8 of 37
Sig.
strikes
22 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:36
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 10
Judges · this round · Mulheron firstPawel Harasim9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
James Mulheron15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 33BODY47%7 of 8LEGS7%1 of 1
Justin Willis15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 25BODY20%3 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 42
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:40
Control
1:11
Distance 10Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mulheron firstPawel Harasim9–10Maciej Motylewski9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
James MulheronJustin Willis
Official totals — James Mulheron first
JudgeTotal
Pawel Harasim2.5 avg spread · 72% wide27–30
Maciej Motylewski27–30
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide27–30

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 — 12 scored, James Mulheron first · unofficial

Helder Sturari MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com27–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com27–30
Andreas Hale Sherdog.com27–30
Jeff Miller Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Willis · 73%29-28 Willis · 20%30-28 Willis · 7%

15 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.

James Mulheron

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.96 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
1.45 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
66%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Justin Willis

0.96takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

James Mulheron↑ +2.4pp
open 37.9%close 40.3%
Justin Willis↓ −2.4pp
open 62.1%close 59.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

James Mulheron opened at 37.9% and closed at 40.3% (+2.4pp), with Justin Willis 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
James Mulheron15014237.9%40.3%+2.4pp
Justin Willis-190-15862.1%59.7%−2.4pp
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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