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The Clinch

United States of America “Smooth” 2009-2015 · 69 rounds on file

Benson Henderson

16-4-0 W-L-D in this database

Benson Henderson, photograph by Zekerags
Strike accuracy 952/2,088
Takedown accuracy 52/114
Sig. strikes / round 13.8
Control / round 1:16
Inside the distance 38% 6 of 16 wins
Height
5′9″175.3 cm
Reach
70″177.8 cm
Leg reach
--
Stance
Southpaw
Age
4216 NOV 1983
Listed weight
170 lb77.1 kg
Positional Controller Automatically assigned from data across 20 fights - 5.0 takedown attempts and 26% control time per 15 minutes.

Who they have fought

Every completed bout, grouped by the opponent's style.

Grappling 13 10-3-0 vs 1594 avg
Positional Controller 7 6-1-0
Submission Grappler 6 4-2-0
Hybrid 5 4-1-0 vs 1614 avg
Well-Rounded 5 4-1-0
Striking 2 2-0-0 vs 1528 avg
Pressure Striker 2 2-0-0

Opponent styles are assigned from their own fight data, not from a training background. They describe how those opponents have fought. Bars scale against 13 bouts, the largest group.

The career, in order

One bar per bout, oldest on the left. Height is the significant strikes landed in that fight.

25 JAN 2009 - beat Anthony Njokuani · Submission 05 APR 2009 - beat Shane Roller · Technical Knockout 10 OCT 2009 - beat Donald Cerrone · Decision (Unanimous) 10 JAN 2010 - beat Jamie Varner · Submission 24 APR 2010 - beat Donald Cerrone · Submission 16 DEC 2010 - lost to Anthony Pettis · Decision (Unanimous) 30 APR 2011 - beat Mark Bocek · Decision (Unanimous) 14 AUG 2011 - beat Jim Miller · Decision (Unanimous) 12 NOV 2011 - beat Clay Guida · Decision (Unanimous) 25 FEB 2012 - beat Frankie Edgar · Decision (Unanimous) 11 AUG 2012 - beat Frankie Edgar · Decision (Split) 08 DEC 2012 - beat Nate Diaz · Decision (Unanimous) 20 APR 2013 - beat Gilbert Melendez · Decision (Split) 31 AUG 2013 - lost to Anthony Pettis · Submission 25 JAN 2014 - beat Josh Thomson · Decision (Split) 07 JUN 2014 - beat Rustam Khabilov · Submission 23 AUG 2014 - lost to Rafael Dos Anjos · Technical Knockout 18 JAN 2015 - lost to Donald Cerrone · Decision (Unanimous) 14 FEB 2015 - beat Brandon Thatch · Submission 28 NOV 2015 - beat Jorge Masvidal · Decision (Split)

Won Lost Draw / no contest

What they do with a round

Summed over 69 rounds across 20 of 20 bouts - the ones the corpus has per-round observations for.

Per round

Sig. strikes landed 13.8
Sig. strikes absorbed 8.4
Takedowns landed 0.8
Knockdowns 0.1
Sub. attempts 0.2
Control time 1:16 of each 5:00 round

Accuracy

Sig. strikes 46% 952/2,088
Takedowns 46% 52/114
Opponents’ accuracy 36% 581/1,605

Where the strikes land

Head 43% 411
Body 31% 296
Leg 26% 245

And from where

At distance 59% 562
In the clinch 21% 200
On the ground 20% 190

How the bouts ended

KO / TKO 1 won Technical Knockout · 1-1
Submission 5 won Submission · 5-1
Decision 10 won Decision (Unanimous) · 6-2 Decision (Split) · 4-0

Every bout

Most recent first. Struck and absorbed are significant strikes.

Date Opponent Result Method End Struck Absorbed Event
28 NOV 2015 Jorge Masvidal Won Decision (Split) R5 5:00 86 77 UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Masvidal
14 FEB 2015 Brandon Thatch Won Submission R4 3:58 57 44 UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Thatch
18 JAN 2015 Donald Cerrone Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 86 57 UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver
23 AUG 2014 Rafael Dos Anjos Lost Technical Knockout R1 2:31 10 18 UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Dos Anjos
07 JUN 2014 Rustam Khabilov Won Submission R4 1:16 26 18 UFC Fight Night: Henderson vs Khabilov
25 JAN 2014 Josh Thomson Won Decision (Split) R5 5:00 46 19 UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson
31 AUG 2013 Anthony Pettis Lost Submission R1 4:41 11 9 UFC 164: Henderson vs Pettis 2
20 APR 2013 Gilbert Melendez Won Decision (Split) R5 5:00 68 43 UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Melendez
08 DEC 2012 Nate Diaz Won Decision (Unanimous) R5 5:00 124 30 UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Diaz
11 AUG 2012 Frankie Edgar Won Decision (Split) R5 5:00 64 66 UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II
25 FEB 2012 Frankie Edgar Won Decision (Unanimous) R5 5:00 87 68 UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson
12 NOV 2011 Clay Guida Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 40 11 UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs Dos Santos
14 AUG 2011 Jim Miller Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 65 14 UFC Live: Hardy vs Lytle
30 APR 2011 Mark Bocek Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 56 11 UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields
16 DEC 2010 Anthony Pettis Lost Decision (Unanimous) R5 5:00 38 42 WEC 53: Henderson vs. Pettis
24 APR 2010 Donald Cerrone Won Submission R1 1:57 15 1 WEC 48: Aldo vs. Faber
10 JAN 2010 Jamie Varner Won Submission R3 2:41 19 23 WEC 46: Varner vs. Henderson
10 OCT 2009 Donald Cerrone Won Decision (Unanimous) R5 5:00 34 28 WEC 43: Cerrone vs. Henderson
05 APR 2009 Shane Roller Won Technical Knockout R1 1:41 14 2 WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki
25 JAN 2009 Anthony Njokuani Won Submission R2 0:42 6 0 WEC 38: Varner vs. Cerrone

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