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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Pettis · Sage Northcutt vs Michel Quinones
From the tape · 11 Nov 2017

Sage Northcutt vs Michel Quinones

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

Sage Northcutt beat Michel Quinones

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

SN
Red corner SageNorthcutt“Super”Team Alpha Male · Katy, Texas
VSOn the tape
MQ
Blue corner MichelQuinones“El Capo”Coral Springs, Florida
Lightweight3 rounds11 Nov 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Quinones.
11-2
Record
8-3
−11 yr21
Age
32
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
Katy, Texas
From
Coral Springs, Florida
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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
Sage Northcutt25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 40BODY16%4 of 6LEGS16%4 of 6
Michel Quinones21 sig landed
HEAD24%5 of 32BODY10%2 of 4LEGS67%14 of 18
25 of 52
Sig.
strikes
21 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstLuc Belhumeur10–9Derek Cleary10–9Ron Rodriguez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sage Northcutt24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 36BODY21%5 of 11LEGS21%5 of 7
Michel Quinones25 sig landed
HEAD12%3 of 27BODY20%5 of 9LEGS68%17 of 21
24 of 54
Sig.
strikes
25 of 57
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstLuc Belhumeur10–9Derek Cleary10–9Ron Rodriguez10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sage Northcutt30 sig landed
HEAD47%14 of 37BODY20%6 of 7LEGS33%10 of 11
Michel Quinones9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 44BODY22%2 of 4LEGS22%2 of 2
30 of 55
Sig.
strikes
9 of 50
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:18
Control
0:00
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstLuc Belhumeur10–9Derek Cleary10–9Ron Rodriguez10–9

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
Sage NorthcuttMichel Quinones
Official totals — Sage Northcutt first
JudgeTotal
Luc Belhumeur30–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Ron Rodriguez30–27

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 — 12 scored, Sage Northcutt first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Northcutt · 100%

12 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.

Sage Northcutt

1.81takedowns / 15 min
1.81 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
5.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
34%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Michel Quinones

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

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Sage Northcutt↓ −3.6pp
open 66.1%close 62.5%
Michel Quinones↑ +3.6pp
open 33.9%close 37.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sage Northcutt opened at 66.1% and closed at 62.5% (−3.6pp), with Michel Quinones 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
Sage Northcutt-245-18366.1%62.5%−3.6pp
Michel Quinones17515833.9%37.5%+3.6pp
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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