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Events · UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal · Stephen Thompson vs Geoff Neal
From the tape · 19 Dec 2020

Stephen Thompson vs Geoff Neal

UFC Fight Night: Thompson vs. Neal · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Stephen Thompson beat Geoff Neal

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
Blue corner GeoffNeal“Handz of Steel”Harker Heights, Texas
Welterweight5 rounds19 Dec 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 10 more than Neal.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
17-9-1
Record
16-8
37
Age
−7 yr30
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+1015
UFC bouts
5
5/1050% of wins
Finishes
+30%4/580% of wins
Simpsonville, South Carolina
From
Harker Heights, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Stephen Thompson25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 54BODY28%7 of 9LEGS12%3 of 3
Geoff Neal7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 1
25 of 66
Sig.
strikes
7 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Stephen Thompson30 sig landed
HEAD57%17 of 57BODY40%12 of 12LEGS3%1 of 1
Geoff Neal15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 16BODY27%4 of 5LEGS20%3 of 4
30 of 70
Sig.
strikes
15 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:30
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Stephen Thompson33 sig landed
HEAD82%27 of 72BODY18%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Geoff Neal15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 31BODY13%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 80
Sig.
strikes
15 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:32
Distance 30Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Stephen Thompson34 sig landed
HEAD74%25 of 65BODY26%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Geoff Neal15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 28BODY7%1 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
34 of 75
Sig.
strikes
15 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:04
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stephen Thompson49 sig landed
HEAD82%40 of 106BODY14%7 of 7LEGS4%2 of 2
Geoff Neal33 sig landed
HEAD94%31 of 57BODY3%1 of 2LEGS3%1 of 1
49 of 115
Sig.
strikes
33 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:40
Distance 48Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Thompson firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Stephen ThompsonGeoff Neal
Official totals — Stephen Thompson first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide50–45
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–45

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 — 24 scored, Stephen Thompson first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com50–44
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges50–45
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com50–45
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com50–45
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com50–45
MM AMania.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Adam Martin BJPenn.com50–45
Nick Baldwin theScore50–45
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com50–45
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press50–45
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com50–45
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com50–45
Ant Walker Sherdog.com50–45
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–45
MM ABrasil.com.br50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Phil Murphy ESPN50–45
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com50–45
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com50–45
Combat Press.com49–46
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Thompson · 70%49-46 Thompson · 14%50-44 Thompson · 5%50-43 Thompson · 2%50-46 Neal · 2%

126 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
0.54 / 15m
0.66 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.20 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
45%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Geoff Neal

0.54takedowns / 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.

Stephen Thompson↓ −1.8pp
open 51.1%close 49.2%
Geoff Neal↑ +1.8pp
open 48.9%close 50.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stephen Thompson opened at 51.1% and closed at 49.2% (−1.8pp), with Geoff Neal 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-115-10751.1%49.2%−1.8pp
Geoff Neal-105-11448.9%50.8%+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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