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Events · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis · Court McGee vs Sean Strickland
From the tape · 11 Nov 2017

Court McGee vs Sean Strickland

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis · Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Result

Sean Strickland beat Court McGee

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Elvis Bello

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.

Red corner CourtMcGee“The Crusher”Factory X · Layton, Utah
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanStricklandXtreme Couture · Anaheim, California
Welterweight3 rounds11 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Strickland.
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than McGee.
23-14
Record
31-7
32
Age
−6 yr26
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+512
UFC bouts
7
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+11%2/540% of wins
Factory X
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Layton, Utah
From
Anaheim, 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
Court McGee24 sig landed
HEAD21%5 of 74BODY33%8 of 19LEGS46%11 of 14
Sean Strickland25 sig landed
HEAD100%25 of 106BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 107
Sig.
strikes
25 of 109
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:25
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McGee firstLuc Belhumeur9–10Derek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Court McGee22 sig landed
HEAD23%5 of 75BODY23%5 of 14LEGS55%12 of 18
Sean Strickland31 sig landed
HEAD97%30 of 81BODY3%1 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 107
Sig.
strikes
31 of 85
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:38
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McGee firstLuc Belhumeur9–10Derek Cleary10–9Jeff Mullen10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Court McGee16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 31BODY12%2 of 9LEGS31%5 of 6
Sean Strickland22 sig landed
HEAD100%22 of 60BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 46
Sig.
strikes
22 of 60
0 of 5
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:03
Control
2:14
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 12
Judges · this round · McGee firstLuc Belhumeur9–10Derek Cleary9–10Jeff Mullen9–10

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 · Elvis Bello
Court McGeeSean Strickland
Official totals — Court McGee first
JudgeTotal
Luc Belhumeur27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

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, Court McGee first · unofficial

MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Severe MMA.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Strickland · 46%29-28 Strickland · 36%30-28 Strickland · 7%29-28 McGee · 4%

28 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.

Court McGee

1.78takedowns / 15 min
1.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.66 / 15m
7.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.06 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
62%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Sean Strickland

0.66takedowns / 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.

Court McGee↓ −9.1pp
open 36.2%close 27.1%
Sean Strickland↑ +9.1pp
open 63.8%close 72.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Court McGee opened at 36.2% and closed at 27.1% (−9.1pp), with Sean Strickland 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
Court McGee16025736.2%27.1%−9.1pp
Sean Strickland-210-30463.8%72.9%+9.1pp
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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