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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Stephen Thompson vs Darren Till
From the tape · 27 May 2018

Stephen Thompson vs Darren Till

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Till · Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Result

Darren Till beat Stephen Thompson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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
DT
Blue corner DarrenTill“The Gorilla”Liverpool, Merseyside
Welterweight5 rounds27 May 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Till.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
17-9-1
Record
18-5-1
35
Age
−10 yr25
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+712
UFC bouts
5
+6%5/956% of wins
Finishes
2/450% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Liverpool, Merseyside
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Stephen Thompson5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 9BODY40%2 of 2LEGS60%3 of 7
Darren Till4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY25%1 of 2LEGS75%3 of 4
5 of 18
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMark Collett10–9Andy Roberts10–9Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Stephen Thompson6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 22BODY67%4 of 5LEGS17%1 of 1
Darren Till9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 13BODY22%2 of 3LEGS56%5 of 9
6 of 28
Sig.
strikes
9 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMark Collett9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Stephen Thompson8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 24BODY38%3 of 5LEGS25%2 of 2
Darren Till9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 25BODY0%0 of 2LEGS22%2 of 5
8 of 31
Sig.
strikes
9 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMark Collett10–9Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Stephen Thompson8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 20BODY38%3 of 3LEGS25%2 of 3
Darren Till7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 26BODY0%0 of 1LEGS43%3 of 6
8 of 26
Sig.
strikes
7 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMark Collett9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland9–10
Round 55:00 of action⚡ 1 KD TillEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 17BODY33%1 of 4LEGS33%1 of 2
Darren Till9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 17BODY22%2 of 4LEGS22%2 of 3
3 of 23
Sig.
strikes
9 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstMark Collett9–10Andy Roberts9–10Paul Sutherland9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Stephen ThompsonDarren Till
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide47–48
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide46–49
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide46–49

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 — 25 scored, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com49–48
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport48–47
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com48–47
MM AJunkie.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com48–47
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Matthew Wells FanSided.com48–47
Youngs FanSided.com48–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com49–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com49–46
Chris Connor The Fight City49–46
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Kendrick Johnson The Ring49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
MM ABrasil.com.br49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Thompson · 32%49-46 Thompson · 28%48-47 Till · 20%49-47 Thompson · 4%49-46 Till · 4%

1,191 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
0.55 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.20 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
46%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Darren Till

0.55takedowns / 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.

Stephen Thompson↓ −0.9pp
open 58.3%close 57.5%
Darren Till↑ +0.9pp
open 41.7%close 42.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephen Thompson opened at 58.3% and closed at 57.5% (−0.9pp), with Darren Till 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-165-14758.3%57.5%−0.9pp
Darren Till12512741.7%42.5%+0.9pp
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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