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Events · UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos · Jon Jones vs Thiago Santos
From the tape · 6 Jul 2019

Jon Jones vs Thiago Santos

UFC 239: Jones vs. Santos · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Jon Jones beat Thiago Santos

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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.

Red corner JonJones“Bones”
VSOn the tape
TS
Blue corner ThiagoSantos“Marreta”Team Marreta · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds6 Jul 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 10 of 18 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 13 UFC wins.
28-1
Record
22-11
−4 yr31
Age
35
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+8″84″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+220
UFC bouts
18
10/1856% of wins
Finishes
+29%11/1385% of wins
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
Jon Jones7 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY43%3 of 5LEGS57%4 of 7
Thiago Santos11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 12BODY9%1 of 1LEGS64%7 of 13
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
11 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jon Jones11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 7BODY36%4 of 4LEGS45%5 of 6
Thiago Santos7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 25BODY29%2 of 6LEGS57%4 of 11
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
7 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Jon Jones14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 7BODY29%4 of 4LEGS43%6 of 8
Thiago Santos6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 17BODY17%1 of 6LEGS67%4 of 10
14 of 19
Sig.
strikes
6 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Jon Jones11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 7BODY18%2 of 3LEGS64%7 of 7
Thiago Santos8 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 13BODY12%1 of 5LEGS88%7 of 10
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
8 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jon Jones16 sig landed
HEAD19%3 of 7BODY19%3 of 3LEGS62%10 of 11
Thiago Santos11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 25BODY18%2 of 3LEGS45%5 of 9
16 of 21
Sig.
strikes
11 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Jones firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Jon JonesThiago Santos
Official totals — Jon Jones first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell48–47
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide47–48

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 — 18 scored, Jon Jones first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com50–45
Kendrick Johnson The Sports Daily49–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com49–46
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com49–46
Keith Shillan FanSided.com49–46
Matthew Wells FanSided.com48–47
MM AMania.com48–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com48–47
MM ABrasil.com.br48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport48–47
Adam Martin Sherdog.com47–48
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com47–48
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Santos · 47%48-47 Jones · 30%49-46 Jones · 10%49-46 Santos · 4%

2,310 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.

Jon Jones

1.89takedowns / 15 min
1.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.88 / 15m
4.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.67 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
33%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Thiago Santos

0.88takedowns / 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.

Jon Jones↓ −4.5pp
open 86.6%close 82.2%
Thiago Santos↑ +4.5pp
open 13.4%close 17.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jon Jones opened at 86.6% and closed at 82.2% (−4.5pp), with Thiago Santos 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
Jon Jones-850-59086.6%82.2%−4.5pp
Thiago Santos62543913.4%17.8%+4.5pp
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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