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History · 2017 · UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre · Stephen Thompson vs Jorge Masvidal
From the tape · 4 Nov 2017

Stephen Thompson vs Jorge Masvidal

UFC 217: Bisping vs. St-Pierre · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Stephen Thompson beat Jorge Masvidal

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

ST
Red corner StephenThompson“Wonderboy”Simpsonville, South Carolina
VSOn the tape
JM
Blue corner JorgeMasvidal“Gamebred”American Top Team · Miami, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds4 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Thompson.
17-9-1
Record
35-17
34
Age
−2 yr32
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+314
+18%5/862% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Miami, Florida
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
Stephen Thompson13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 19BODY23%3 of 6LEGS8%1 of 2
Jorge Masvidal12 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY17%2 of 5LEGS83%10 of 15
13 of 27
Sig.
strikes
12 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Thompson
Stephen Thompson18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 37BODY11%2 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
Jorge Masvidal14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 23BODY0%0 of 3LEGS79%11 of 17
18 of 43
Sig.
strikes
14 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:02
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson39 sig landed
HEAD67%26 of 61BODY31%12 of 24LEGS3%1 of 1
Jorge Masvidal16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 43BODY19%3 of 5LEGS44%7 of 18
39 of 86
Sig.
strikes
16 of 66
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–8Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Stephen ThompsonJorge Masvidal
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–26
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

Matthew Wells FanSided.com30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Dominik Durniat Extreme Sports Channel30–27
Kendrick Johnson The Ring30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Youngs FanSided.com30–27
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Thompson · 66%30-26 Thompson · 15%29-28 Thompson · 8%30-25 Thompson · 4%29-27 Thompson · 2%

131 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.

Stephen Thompson

0.23takedowns / 15 min
0.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.38 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.34 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
59%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jorge Masvidal

1.38takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Stephen Thompson↑ +5.8pp
open 57.5%close 63.3%
Jorge Masvidal↓ −5.8pp
open 42.5%close 36.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephen Thompson opened at 57.5% and closed at 63.3% (+5.8pp), with Jorge Masvidal 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
Stephen Thompson-160-18957.5%63.3%+5.8pp
Jorge Masvidal12016442.5%36.7%−5.8pp
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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