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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Stevie Ray vs Jessin Ayari
From the tape · 27 Oct 2018

Stevie Ray vs Jessin Ayari

UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Result

Stevie Ray beat Jessin Ayari

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Barry Gallant

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.

SR
Red corner StevieRay“Braveheart”Elite Team · California
VSOn the tape
JA
Blue corner JessinAyariNuremberg, Bavaria
Lightweight3 rounds27 Oct 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
23-9
Record
16-6
28
Age
−2 yr26
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+68
UFC bouts
2
2/540% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
California
From
Nuremberg, Bavaria
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
Stevie Ray19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 21BODY11%2 of 4LEGS63%12 of 16
Jessin Ayari17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 26BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
19 of 41
Sig.
strikes
17 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:05
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ray firstPaul Doiron9–10Hubert Earle10–9Bob LeBlanc9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Stevie Ray30 sig landed
HEAD37%11 of 37BODY0%0 of 1LEGS63%19 of 23
Jessin Ayari22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 40BODY18%4 of 6LEGS14%3 of 4
30 of 61
Sig.
strikes
22 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ray firstPaul Doiron10–9Hubert Earle10–9Bob LeBlanc10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stevie Ray26 sig landed
HEAD27%7 of 49BODY15%4 of 6LEGS58%15 of 17
Jessin Ayari24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 55BODY4%1 of 1LEGS8%2 of 2
26 of 72
Sig.
strikes
24 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ray firstPaul Doiron10–9Hubert Earle10–9Bob LeBlanc10–9

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 · Barry Gallant
Stevie RayJessin Ayari
Official totals — Stevie Ray first
JudgeTotal
Paul Doiron29–28
Hubert Earle30–27
Bob LeBlanc29–28

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 — 12 scored, Stevie Ray first · unofficial

MM AMania.com29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Felipe Freitas mmabrasil.com.br28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ayari · 39%30-27 Ayari · 27%29-28 Ray · 18%30-27 Ray · 9%

33 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.

Stevie Ray

0.75takedowns / 15 min
0.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.63 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
46%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Jessin Ayari

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.

Stevie Ray↓ −4.4pp
open 64.4%close 60.0%
Jessin Ayari↑ +4.4pp
open 35.6%close 40.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stevie Ray opened at 64.4% and closed at 60.0% (−4.4pp), with Jessin Ayari 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
Stevie Ray-215-16664.4%60.0%−4.4pp
Jessin Ayari16514035.6%40.0%+4.4pp
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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