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History · 2007 · UFC 79: Nemesis · Eddie Sanchez vs Soa Palelei
From the tape · 29 Dec 2007

Eddie Sanchez vs Soa Palelei

UFC 79: Nemesis · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Eddie Sanchez beat Soa Palelei

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
3:24
HeavyweightMain 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.

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Red corner EddieSanchez“The Manic Hispanic”Kings MMA · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
SP
Blue corner SoaPalelei“The Hulk”AKA Thailand · Perth, Western Australia
Heavyweight3 rounds29 Dec 2007
15-8
Record
22-5
−5 yr25
Age
30
6' 2"
Height
+2″6' 4"
74″
Reach
+7″81″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kings MMA
Gym
AKA Thailand
San Diego, California
From
Perth, Western Australia
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
Eddie Sanchez12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 23BODY25%3 of 3LEGS25%3 of 4
Soa Palelei12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 7BODY42%5 of 5LEGS42%5 of 5
12 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:17
Control
2:26
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 11Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Eddie Sanchez20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 38BODY20%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 2
Soa Palelei8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 9BODY25%2 of 4LEGS25%2 of 2
20 of 45
Sig.
strikes
8 of 15
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:53
Control
2:26
Distance 13Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 33:24 of actionEnded 3:24
Eddie Sanchez20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 37BODY10%2 of 2LEGS5%1 of 1
Soa Palelei1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:09
Control
0:55
Distance 9Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 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

Eddie Sanchez

Round
3
Clock
3:24
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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Eddie Sanchez

1.13takedowns / 15 min
1.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.20 / 15m
4.35 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.68 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
47%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Soa Palelei

2.20takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Eddie Sanchez↓ −4.2pp
open 43.8%close 39.6%
Soa Palelei↑ +4.2pp
open 56.2%close 60.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Eddie Sanchez opened at 43.8% and closed at 39.6% (−4.2pp), with Soa Palelei moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Eddie Sanchez12014543.8%39.6%−4.2pp
Soa Palelei-140-16556.2%60.4%+4.2pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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