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History · 2003 · UFC 41: Onslaught · BJ Penn vs Caol Uno
From the tape · 28 Feb 2003

BJ Penn vs Caol Uno

UFC 41: Onslaught · Atlantic City, New Jersey, 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 - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Lightweight TitleTitle fightMain cardReferee · 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.

BP
Red corner BJPenn“The Prodigy”
VSOn the tape
CU
Blue corner CaolUno“Uno Shoten”Uno Dojo · Yokosuka, Kanagawa
Lightweight Title5 rounds28 Feb 2003
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
16-14-2
Record
33-19-5
−3 yr24
Age
27
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+16
UFC bouts
5
+47%4/580% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
BJ Penn21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 18BODY38%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Caol Uno9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 5BODY33%3 of 4LEGS44%4 of 4
21 of 26
Sig.
strikes
9 of 13
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:14
Control
0:39
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
BJ Penn11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 14BODY9%1 of 1LEGS18%2 of 3
Caol Uno20 sig landed
HEAD20%4 of 7BODY15%3 of 3LEGS65%13 of 15
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
20 of 25
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:33
Control
2:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 6
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attempt
BJ Penn6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 9BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Caol Uno17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 13BODY12%2 of 3LEGS47%8 of 9
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
17 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:43
Control
2:09
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 8
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 45:00 of action
BJ Penn14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 14BODY43%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Caol Uno10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 6BODY10%1 of 2LEGS70%7 of 9
14 of 20
Sig.
strikes
10 of 17
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:50
Control
0:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
BJ Penn15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 14BODY27%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Caol Uno8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 12BODY38%3 of 4LEGS12%1 of 1
15 of 18
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:49
Control
1:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 148–48
Judge 246–48
Judge 348–47

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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.

BJ Penn

1.19takedowns / 15 min
1.19 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.95 / 15m
2.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.29 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
31%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Caol Uno

1.95takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

BJ Penn vs Caol Uno.

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