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History · 2006 · UFC 64: Unstoppable · Sean Sherk vs Kenny Florian
From the tape · 14 Oct 2006

Sean Sherk vs Kenny Florian

UFC 64: Unstoppable · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Sean Sherk beat Kenny Florian

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Lightweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

SS
Red corner SeanSherk“The Muscle Shark”The Academy MN · Minneapolis, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
KF
Blue corner KennyFlorian“KenFlo”Florian Martial Arts Center · Westwood, Massachusetts
Lightweight Title5 rounds14 Oct 2006
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Florian.
  • Every one of Florian’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
36-4-1
Record
14-6
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
67″
Reach
+7″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+26
UFC bouts
4
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+50%3/3100% of wins
The Academy MN
Gym
Florian Martial Arts Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
From
Westwood, Massachusetts
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action2 sub attempts
Sean Sherk15 sig landed
HEAD100%15 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kenny Florian2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 31
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:47
Control
0:07
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sherk firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sean Sherk4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
Kenny Florian8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 9BODY12%1 of 1LEGS12%1 of 1
4 of 9
Sig.
strikes
8 of 11
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:28
Control
0:25
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Sherk firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Sean Sherk20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 29BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Kenny Florian3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY100%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 31
Sig.
strikes
3 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:49
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sherk firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Sean Sherk14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS7%1 of 2
Kenny Florian3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 4BODY33%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 23
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:49
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sherk firstCecil Peoples10–9
Round 55:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Sean Sherk7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS14%1 of 1
Kenny Florian7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 6BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 10
Sig.
strikes
7 of 10
4 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:56
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Sherk firstCecil Peoples10–9

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 · Steve Mazzagatti
Sean SherkKenny Florian
Official totals — Sean Sherk first
JudgeTotal
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide50–45

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 — 1 scored, Sean Sherk first · unofficial

Sherdog.com50–45

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Sherk · 70%50-44 Sherk · 9%50-46 Sherk · 4%48-47 Sherk · 4%48-46 Sherk · 4%

23 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.

Sean Sherk

4.09takedowns / 15 min
4.09 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.22 / 15m
8.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.73 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
33%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Kenny Florian

2.22takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Sean Sherk vs Kenny Florian.

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