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Events · UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz · Stephen Thompson vs Vicente Luque
From the tape · 2 Nov 2019

Stephen Thompson vs Vicente Luque

UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Stephen Thompson beat Vicente Luque

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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
Blue corner VicenteLuque“The Silent Assassin”Kill Cliff FC · Westwood, New Jersey
Welterweight3 rounds2 Nov 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 10 UFC wins.
17-9-1
Record
24-13-1
36
Age
−9 yr27
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+214
UFC bouts
12
5/956% of wins
Finishes
+34%9/1090% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Westwood, New Jersey
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
Stephen Thompson32 sig landed
HEAD78%25 of 42BODY9%3 of 3LEGS12%4 of 5
Vicente Luque38 sig landed
HEAD26%10 of 35BODY16%6 of 6LEGS58%22 of 26
32 of 50
Sig.
strikes
38 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 30Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Stephen Thompson51 sig landed
HEAD84%43 of 82BODY14%7 of 8LEGS2%1 of 1
Vicente Luque25 sig landed
HEAD36%9 of 34BODY8%2 of 9LEGS56%14 of 18
51 of 91
Sig.
strikes
25 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 50Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Douglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD ThompsonEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson55 sig landed
HEAD78%43 of 88BODY20%11 of 12LEGS2%1 of 1
Vicente Luque14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 38BODY7%1 of 3LEGS43%6 of 6
55 of 101
Sig.
strikes
14 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–8Douglas Crosby10–8Sal D'Amato10–8

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 · Keith Peterson
Stephen ThompsonVicente Luque
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Douglas Crosby30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27

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 — 13 scored, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–27
Phil Murphy ESPN29–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Thompson · 47%30-26 Thompson · 23%29-28 Thompson · 15%30-27 Thompson · 7%30-25 Thompson · 4%

222 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
0.89 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.85 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
48%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Vicente Luque

0.89takedowns / 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↓ −1.8pp
open 52.9%close 51.1%
Vicente Luque↑ +1.8pp
open 47.1%close 48.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephen Thompson opened at 52.9% and closed at 51.1% (−1.8pp), with Vicente Luque 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-135-11552.9%51.1%−1.8pp
Vicente Luque-105-10547.1%48.9%+1.8pp
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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