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Events · UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson · Kalib Starnes vs Chris Leben
From the tape · 26 May 2007

Kalib Starnes vs Chris Leben

UFC 71: Liddell vs Jackson · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kalib Starnes beat Chris Leben

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

KS
Red corner KalibStarnesAegis Athletics · Surrey, British Columbia
VSOn the tape
CL
Blue corner ChrisLeben“The Crippler”Alliance MMA · Portland, Oregon
Middleweight3 rounds26 May 2007
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Starnes.
17-11-1
Record
22-11
32
Age
−6 yr26
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+1″74″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+68
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
Aegis Athletics
Gym
Alliance MMA
Surrey, British Columbia
From
Portland, Oregon
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
Kalib Starnes19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 13BODY58%11 of 11LEGS16%3 of 3
Chris Leben16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 35BODY19%3 of 8LEGS38%6 of 7
19 of 27
Sig.
strikes
16 of 50
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:29
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 8Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 8Ground 0
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
Kalib Starnes15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 18BODY40%6 of 12LEGS13%2 of 2
Chris Leben17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 44BODY35%6 of 11LEGS29%5 of 6
15 of 32
Sig.
strikes
17 of 61
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:13
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kalib Starnes13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 15BODY31%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Leben11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 15BODY18%2 of 5LEGS18%2 of 4
13 of 20
Sig.
strikes
11 of 24
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:25
Control
1:18
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 3
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Kalib Starnes first
JudgeTotal
Patricia Morse-Jarman2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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.

Media cards — 3 scored, Kalib Starnes first · unofficial

Sherdog.com29–28
Fight Metric.com29–30
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Starnes · 50%30-28 Starnes · 12%29-28 Leben · 12%30-27 Starnes · 12%

8 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.

Kalib Starnes

1.46takedowns / 15 min
1.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.14 / 15m
4.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.78 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
41%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Chris Leben

1.14takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Kalib Starnes vs Chris Leben.

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