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History · 2018 · UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta · Joe Lauzon vs Chris Gruetzemacher
From the tape · 7 Apr 2018

Joe Lauzon vs Chris Gruetzemacher

UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Result

Chris Gruetzemacher beat Joe Lauzon

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 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.

JL
Red corner JoeLauzonLauzon MMA · Bridgewater, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
CG
Blue corner ChrisGruetzemacher“Gritz”2 Knuckle Sports MMA Academy · Surprise, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds7 Apr 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 12 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Lands 3.3 more significant strikes a minute than Lauzon.
28-16
Record
15-5
33
Age
−2 yr31
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2225
UFC bouts
3
12/1486% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Lauzon MMA
Gym
2 Knuckle Sports MMA Academy
Bridgewater, Massachusetts
From
Surprise, Arizona
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Joe Lauzon35 sig landed
HEAD80%28 of 75BODY17%6 of 8LEGS3%1 of 1
Chris Gruetzemacher53 sig landed
HEAD47%25 of 58BODY36%19 of 22LEGS17%9 of 9
35 of 84
Sig.
strikes
53 of 89
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:31
Distance 26Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 15Ground 9
Round 25:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joe Lauzon13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 50BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Chris Gruetzemacher75 sig landed
HEAD63%47 of 77BODY35%26 of 28LEGS3%2 of 2
13 of 53
Sig.
strikes
75 of 107
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:07
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 36Ground 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

Chris Gruetzemacher

Round
2
Clock
5:00
Method
KO/TKO

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.

Joe Lauzon

2.39takedowns / 15 min
2.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.21 / 15m
5.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.42 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
50%
2.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Chris Gruetzemacher

0.21takedowns / 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.

Joe Lauzon↓ −8.0pp
open 66.1%close 58.2%
Chris Gruetzemacher↑ +8.0pp
open 33.9%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joe Lauzon opened at 66.1% and closed at 58.2% (−8.0pp), with Chris Gruetzemacher 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
Joe Lauzon-245-15166.1%58.2%−8.0pp
Chris Gruetzemacher17513133.9%41.8%+8.0pp
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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