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History · 2008 · UFC 87: Seek And Destroy · Brock Lesnar vs Heath Herring
From the tape · 9 Aug 2008

Brock Lesnar vs Heath Herring

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

Brock Lesnar beat Heath Herring

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

BL
Red corner BrockLesnarTeam Death Clutch · Webster, South Dakota
VSOn the tape
HH
Blue corner HeathHerring“The Texas Crazy Horse”Las Vegas Combat Club · Waco, Texas
Heavyweight3 rounds9 Aug 2008
5-3
Record
28-16
31
Age
−1 yr30
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
+3″81″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
Team Death Clutch
Gym
Las Vegas Combat Club
Webster, South Dakota
From
Waco, Texas
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⚡ 1 KD Lesnar1 sub attempt
Brock Lesnar18 sig landed
HEAD44%8 of 12BODY56%10 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Heath Herring1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
18 of 22
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:44
Control
1:02
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 1
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
Brock Lesnar12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 5BODY67%8 of 8LEGS17%2 of 2
Heath Herring3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY67%2 of 3LEGS33%1 of 1
12 of 15
Sig.
strikes
3 of 7
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:30
Control
0:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 4Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 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
Brock Lesnar15 sig landed
HEAD33%5 of 5BODY60%9 of 9LEGS7%1 of 1
Heath Herring5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 9BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 15
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:19
Control
0:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 5Ground 0
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 · Dan Miragliotta
Official totals — Brock Lesnar first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide30–26
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide30–26
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide30–26

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 — 6 scored, Brock Lesnar first · unofficial

Fight Metric.com30–26
MM AWeekly.com30–26
Greg Savage Sherdog.com30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Lesnar · 38%30-25 Lesnar · 22%30-27 Lesnar · 18%30-24 Lesnar · 12%30-23 Lesnar · 5%

40 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.

Brock Lesnar

3.90takedowns / 15 min
3.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.22 / 15m
7.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.44 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
50%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Heath Herring

1.22takedowns / 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.

Brock Lesnar↓ −3.1pp
open 67.4%close 64.3%
Heath Herring↑ +3.1pp
open 32.6%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brock Lesnar opened at 67.4% and closed at 64.3% (−3.1pp), with Heath Herring 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
Brock Lesnar-250-19067.4%64.3%−3.1pp
Heath Herring19017532.6%35.7%+3.1pp
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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