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History · 2008 · UFC 80: Rapid Fire · BJ Penn vs Joe Stevenson
From the tape · 19 Jan 2008

BJ Penn vs Joe Stevenson

UFC 80: Rapid Fire · Newcastle, England, United Kingdom
Result

BJ Penn beat Joe Stevenson

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 5
Clock
4:02
Lightweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Herb Dean

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
JS
Blue corner JoeStevenson“Daddy”Joe Stevenson's Cobra Kai · Victorville, California
Lightweight Title5 rounds19 Jan 2008
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Stevenson.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
16-14-2
Record
33-16
29
Age
−4 yr25
+2″5' 9"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+511
UFC bouts
6
+26%6/786% of wins
Finishes
3/560% of wins
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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 Penn
BJ Penn13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 18BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Stevenson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 6BODY50%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 20
Sig.
strikes
8 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:55
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 8
Round 24:02 of action⚡ 1 KD Penn1 sub attemptEnded 4:02
BJ Penn28 sig landed
HEAD96%27 of 48BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Stevenson9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 23BODY22%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 49
Sig.
strikes
9 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 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

BJ Penn

Round
2
Clock
4:02
Method
Submission

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: Herb Dean.

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
2.75 / 15m
2.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.25 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
44%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.20 / 15m

Joe Stevenson

2.75takedowns / 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

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.

BJ Pennclose only
no opening line on recordclose 73.6%
Joe Stevensonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 26.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: BJ Penn 73.6%, Joe Stevenson 26.4%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
BJ Penn—-325—73.6%—
Joe Stevenson180265—26.4%—
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for B.J. Penn, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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