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History · 2016 · UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Michael Graves vs Bojan Velickovic
From the tape · 30 Jul 2016

Michael Graves vs Bojan Velickovic

UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · George Allen

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.

MG
Red corner MichaelGravesAmerican Top Team · Born in Maumee, Ohio, United States · Fights out of Coconut Creek, Florida, United States
VSOn the tape
BV
Blue corner BojanVelickovic“Serbian Steel”Elevation Fight Team · Born in Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia · Fights out of Denver, Colorado, United States
Welterweight3 rounds30 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 4.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Velickovic.
6-0-1
Record
15-6-1
−2 yr25
Age
27
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
71″
Reach
+5″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+12
UFC bouts
1
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Maumee, Ohio, United States
Born in
Novi Sad, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Coconut Creek, Florida, United States
Fights out of
Denver, Colorado, United States
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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
Michael Graves6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY50%3 of 3LEGS33%2 of 2
Bojan Velickovic10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 12BODY10%1 of 3LEGS70%7 of 11
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:37
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Graves firstDerek Cleary9–10James Corbett10–9Jeff Mullen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Graves3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Bojan Velickovic1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
3 of 5
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:04
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Graves firstDerek Cleary10–8James Corbett10–9Jeff Mullen10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Graves0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

Bojan Velickovic6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 19BODY50%3 of 3LEGS33%2 of 7
0 of 4
Sig.
strikes
6 of 29
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:17
Control
0:42
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Graves firstDerek Cleary9–10James Corbett10–9Jeff Mullen9–10

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

Decision - Majority

Referee · George Allen
Michael GravesBojan Velickovic
Official totals — Michael Graves first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–28
James Corbett30–27
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide28–28

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 — 20 scored, Michael Graves first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
Patrick Wyman BleacherReport.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Youngs TheMMACorner.com29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dana Becker FightLine.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Graves · 34%29-28 Velickovic · 20%29-27 Graves · 6%

50 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.

Michael Graves

4.80takedowns / 15 min
4.80 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.67 / 15m
9.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.68 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
25%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Bojan Velickovic

0.67takedowns / 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 (5.59 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.

Michael Graves↑ +8.5pp
open 59.9%close 68.4%
Bojan Velickovic↓ −8.5pp
open 40.1%close 31.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Graves opened at 59.9% and closed at 68.4% (+8.5pp), with Bojan Velickovic 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
Michael Graves-175-24559.9%68.4%+8.5pp
Bojan Velickovic13520540.1%31.6%−8.5pp
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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