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Events · UFC 9: Motor City Madness · Dan Severn vs Ken Shamrock
From the tape · 17 May 1996

Dan Severn vs Ken Shamrock

UFC 9: Motor City Madness · Detroit, Michigan, USA
Result

Dan Severn beat Ken Shamrock

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 1
Clock
3:00
Superfight ChampionshipMainReferee · John McCarthy

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.

DS
Red corner DanSevern“The Beast”The Beast Academy · Coldwater, Michigan
VSOn the tape
KS
Blue corner KenShamrock“The World's Most Dangerous Man”Lion's Den · San Diego, California
Superfight Championship1 rounds17 May 1996
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Shamrock’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Is 46 points more accurate striking than Severn.
101-19-1
Record
28-17-2
37
Age
−5 yr32
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+410
UFC bouts
6
6/875% of wins
Finishes
+25%4/4100% of wins
The Beast Academy
Gym
Lion's Den
Coldwater, Michigan
From
San Diego, California
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dan Severn13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 53BODY0%0 landedLEGS15%2 of 2
Ken Shamrock14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 55BODY57%8 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 55
Sig.
strikes
14 of 64
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 9
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action
Dan Severn0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 4 thrown

Ken Shamrock0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

0 of 4
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 33:00 of actionEnded 3:00
Dan Severn3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%1 of 3
Ken Shamrock4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 14BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 16
Sig.
strikes
4 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ken Shamrock

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.94takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.50 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +1.20 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS27
0.94 / 15m−1.20 vs field
ATTEMPTS14
1.57 / 15m−3.69 vs field
ACCURACY82
60%+16pp vs field
SUB ATT90
2.50 / 15m+1.20 vs field

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.

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.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Dan Severn vs Ken Shamrock.

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