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History · 2008 · UFC 87: Seek And Destroy · Ben Saunders vs Ryan Thomas
From the tape · 9 Aug 2008

Ben Saunders vs Ryan Thomas

UFC 87: Seek And Destroy · Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Result

Ben Saunders beat Ryan Thomas

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
2:28
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Darryl Guthmiller

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.

BS
Red corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
VSOn the tape
RT
Blue corner RyanThomas“The Tank Engine”American Top Team · Danville, Illinois
Welterweight3 rounds9 Aug 2008
The story going in
  • Carries 66 points more takedown defence than Thomas.
  • Averages 5.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Saunders.
22-13-2
Record
20-8
25
Age
−2 yr23
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team Orlando
Gym
American Top Team
Orlando, Florida
From
Danville, Illinois
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Saunders2 sub attempts
Ben Saunders25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 27BODY40%10 of 11LEGS4%1 of 1
Ryan Thomas9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 24BODY22%2 of 3LEGS22%2 of 3
25 of 39
Sig.
strikes
9 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:09
Control
0:22
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 22:28 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 2:28
Ben Saunders16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 10BODY38%6 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
Ryan Thomas3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 2
16 of 19
Sig.
strikes
3 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:59
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 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

Ben Saunders

Round
2
Clock
2:28
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: Darryl Guthmiller.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 15 min
0.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.59 / 15m
0.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
16.94 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
33%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.20 / 15m

Ryan Thomas

5.59takedowns / 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

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.

Ben Saunders→ no move
open 71.0%close 70.7%
Ryan Thomas→ no move
open 29.0%close 29.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Ben Saunders opened at 71.0% and closed at 70.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Ben Saunders-290-27071.0%70.7%−0.4pp
Ryan Thomas23023029.0%29.3%+0.4pp
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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