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History · 2024 · UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · Jonathan Martinez vs Marcus McGhee
From the tape · 16 Nov 2024

Jonathan Martinez vs Marcus McGhee

UFC 309: Jones vs. Miocic · New York City, New York, USA
Result

Marcus McGhee beat Jonathan Martinez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 JonathanMartinez“Dragon”Factory X · Plainview, Texas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarcusMcGhee“The Maniac”MMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds16 Nov 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than McGhee.
  • Every one of McGhee’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
19-6
Record
11-2
−4 yr30
Age
34
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1114
UFC bouts
3
4/1040% of wins
Finishes
+60%3/3100% of wins
Factory X
Gym
MMA Lab
Plainview, Texas
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Jonathan Martinez7 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 11BODY14%1 of 1LEGS86%6 of 6
Marcus McGhee33 sig landed
HEAD52%17 of 52BODY15%5 of 11LEGS33%11 of 12
7 of 18
Sig.
strikes
33 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Martinez firstChris Bolinski9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jonathan Martinez17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 38BODY6%1 of 4LEGS24%4 of 5
Marcus McGhee42 sig landed
HEAD64%27 of 73BODY14%6 of 8LEGS21%9 of 12
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
42 of 93
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Martinez firstChris Bolinski9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jonathan Martinez24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 27BODY4%1 of 3LEGS46%11 of 13
Marcus McGhee27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 42BODY26%7 of 8LEGS15%4 of 5
24 of 43
Sig.
strikes
27 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:57
Control
0:00
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Martinez firstChris Bolinski10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9

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
Jonathan MartinezMarcus McGhee
Official totals — Jonathan Martinez first
JudgeTotal
Chris Bolinski28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Jonathan Martinez first · unofficial

Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Stephie Haynes28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29
Jake Noecker Cageside Press28–29
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 McGhee · 75%29-28 Martinez · 15%30-27 McGhee · 3%29-26 McGhee · 2%

61 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.

Jonathan Martinez

0.38takedowns / 15 min
0.38 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.31 / 15m
1.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.21 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
14%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Marcus McGhee

0.31takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Jonathan Martinez↑ +4.8pp
open 42.8%close 47.5%
Marcus McGhee↓ −4.8pp
open 57.2%close 52.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jonathan Martinez opened at 42.8% and closed at 47.5% (+4.8pp), with Marcus McGhee 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
Jonathan Martinez124-10042.8%47.5%+4.8pp
Marcus McGhee-148-12357.2%52.5%−4.8pp
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% · dated 2024-11-17 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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