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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros · Sage Northcutt vs Thibault Gouti
From the tape · 18 Feb 2018

Sage Northcutt vs Thibault Gouti

UFC Fight Night: Cerrone vs. Medeiros · Austin, Texas, USA
Result

Sage Northcutt beat Thibault Gouti

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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
TG
Blue corner ThibaultGouti“GT”Jackson-Wink MMA · Toulousse, Haute-Gauronne
Lightweight3 rounds18 Feb 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 42 points more takedown defence than Northcutt.
  • Is 18 points more accurate striking than Gouti.
11-2
Record
12-5
−9 yr21
Age
30
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+26
UFC bouts
4
2/450% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Katy, Texas
From
Toulousse, Haute-Gauronne
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 action1 sub attempt
Sage Northcutt22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 35BODY23%5 of 7LEGS9%2 of 3
Thibault Gouti9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 15BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 3
22 of 45
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:36
Control
0:53
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstChris Lee10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Jason Stafin10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sage Northcutt12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 32BODY50%6 of 8LEGS8%1 of 1
Thibault Gouti14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 21BODY7%1 of 4LEGS21%3 of 4
12 of 41
Sig.
strikes
14 of 29
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstChris Lee9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Jason Stafin9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sage Northcutt29 sig landed
HEAD41%12 of 35BODY17%5 of 5LEGS41%12 of 12
Thibault Gouti5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 4
29 of 52
Sig.
strikes
5 of 18
0 of 3
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:17
Control
2:17
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Northcutt firstChris Lee10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Jason Stafin10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Sage NorthcuttThibault Gouti
Official totals — Sage Northcutt first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Jason Stafin29–28

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 — 19 scored, Sage Northcutt first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com28–29
Tony Fagnano MMA- Today.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Northcutt · 49%29-28 Gouti · 36%30-27 Gouti · 8%30-28 Gouti · 2%

138 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
1.23 / 15m
5.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.54 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
80%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Thibault Gouti

1.23takedowns / 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↑ +11.3pp
open 64.8%close 76.2%
Thibault Gouti↓ −11.3pp
open 35.2%close 23.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sage Northcutt opened at 64.8% and closed at 76.2% (+11.3pp), with Thibault Gouti 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-215-37064.8%76.2%+11.3pp
Thibault Gouti17030635.2%23.8%−11.3pp
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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