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Events · UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson · Max Griffin vs Alex Morono
From the tape · 12 Oct 2019

Max Griffin vs Alex Morono

UFC Fight Night: Joanna vs. Waterson · Tampa, Florida, USA
Result

Alex Morono beat Max Griffin

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · 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 MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexMorono“The Great White”Houston, Texas
Welterweight3 rounds12 Oct 2019
The story going in
  • Carries 22 points more takedown defence than Morono.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
20-13
Record
24-13
33
Age
−4 yr29
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+18
1/333% of wins
Finishes
+7%2/540% of wins
Sacramento, California
From
Houston, Texas
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
Max Griffin24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 46BODY42%10 of 15LEGS8%2 of 2
Alex Morono31 sig landed
HEAD61%19 of 90BODY16%5 of 7LEGS23%7 of 7
24 of 63
Sig.
strikes
31 of 104
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichelle Olney9–10Dave Tirelli9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Morono
Max Griffin30 sig landed
HEAD60%18 of 48BODY37%11 of 17LEGS3%1 of 2
Alex Morono40 sig landed
HEAD85%34 of 102BODY10%4 of 6LEGS5%2 of 2
30 of 67
Sig.
strikes
40 of 110
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:17
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 11Ground 1
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichelle Olney9–10Dave Tirelli8–10Tony Weeks8–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Griffin21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 21BODY57%12 of 13LEGS10%2 of 2
Alex Morono10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 37BODY20%2 of 2LEGS10%1 of 2
21 of 36
Sig.
strikes
10 of 41
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:32
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichelle Olney10–9Dave Tirelli10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Max GriffinAlex Morono
Official totals — Max Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Michelle Olney28–29
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–29

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 — 14 scored, Max Griffin first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Morono · 37%29-28 Griffin · 17%29-27 Morono · 17%30-28 Morono · 2%

41 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.

Max Griffin

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.32 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.33 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
24%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Alex Morono

0.32takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Max Griffin↑ +7.5pp
open 48.1%close 55.6%
Alex Morono↓ −7.5pp
open 51.9%close 44.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Griffin opened at 48.1% and closed at 55.6% (+7.5pp), with Alex Morono 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
Max Griffin-110-13748.1%55.6%+7.5pp
Alex Morono-13011751.9%44.4%−7.5pp
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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