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History · 2017 · UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Demetrious Johnson vs Ray Borg
From the tape · 7 Oct 2017

Demetrious Johnson vs Ray Borg

UFC 216: Ferguson vs. Lee · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Demetrious Johnson beat Ray Borg

Method
Submission
Round
5 of 5
Clock
3:15
Flyweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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.

DJ
Red corner DemetriousJohnson“Mighty Mouse”AMC Pankration · Kirkland, Washington
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RayBorg“The Tazmexican Devil”Jackson's MMA Acoma · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Flyweight Title5 rounds7 Oct 2017
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 12-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
27-3-1
Record
13-5
31
Age
−7 yr24
5' 3"
Height
+1″5' 4"
+3″66″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+916
UFC bouts
7
+3%6/1443% of wins
Finishes
2/540% of wins
AMC Pankration
Gym
Jackson's MMA Acoma
Kirkland, Washington
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 12BODY20%3 of 3LEGS33%5 of 8
Ray Borg1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
15 of 23
Sig.
strikes
1 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:04
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson11 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY91%10 of 10LEGS9%1 of 1
Ray Borg0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

11 of 11
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
3:35
Control
1:08
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson23 sig landed
HEAD43%10 of 12BODY57%13 of 14LEGS0%0 landed
Ray Borg4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
23 of 26
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
4:18
Control
0:12
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Round 45:00 of action
Demetrious Johnson9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 8BODY44%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Ray Borg5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 3BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 13
Sig.
strikes
5 of 6
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
4:01
Control
0:38
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 53:15 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 3:15
Demetrious Johnson6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 2BODY67%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
Ray Borg3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 8
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:49
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Demetrious Johnson

Round
5
Clock
3:15
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Demetrious Johnson

3.35takedowns / 15 min
3.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.89 / 15m
5.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.78 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
50%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Ray Borg

3.89takedowns / 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.

Demetrious Johnson→ no move
open 87.5%close 87.2%
Ray Borg→ no move
open 12.5%close 12.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Demetrious Johnson opened at 87.5% and closed at 87.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.3pp 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
Demetrious Johnson-1350-100087.5%87.2%−0.3pp
Ray Borg65065012.5%12.8%+0.3pp
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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