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History · 2006 · UFC 65: Bad Intentions · Georges St-Pierre vs Matt Hughes
From the tape · 18 Nov 2006

Georges St-Pierre vs Matt Hughes

UFC 65: Bad Intentions · Sacramento, California, USA
Result

Georges St-Pierre beat Matt Hughes

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 5
Clock
1:25
Welterweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

GS
Red corner GeorgesSt-Pierre“Rush”Tristar Gym · St. Isidore, Quebec
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MattHughesHIT Squad · Hillsboro, Illinois
Welterweight Title5 rounds18 Nov 2006
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 11 of 14 UFC wins.
26-2
Record
45-9
−8 yr25
Age
33
+2″5' 11"
Height
5' 9"
+3″76″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
7
UFC bouts
+916
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+29%11/1479% of wins
Tristar Gym
Gym
HIT Squad
St. Isidore, Quebec
From
Hillsboro, Illinois
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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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD St-Pierre
Georges St-Pierre28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 44BODY11%3 of 5LEGS18%5 of 11
Matt Hughes5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 26BODY20%1 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
28 of 60
Sig.
strikes
5 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:27
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 4Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 21:25 of action⚡ 1 KD St-PierreEnded 1:25
Georges St-Pierre17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 26BODY0%0 landedLEGS29%5 of 6
Matt Hughes5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 8BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 32
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:09
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Georges St-Pierre

Round
2
Clock
1:25
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Georges St-Pierre

4.16takedowns / 15 min
4.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.95 / 15m
5.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.90 / 15m
74%
ACCURACY
50%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Matt Hughes

2.95takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Georges St-Pierre vs Matt Hughes.

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