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History · 2008 · UFC 88: Breakthrough · Rich Franklin vs Matt Hamill
From the tape · 6 Sep 2008

Rich Franklin vs Matt Hamill

UFC 88: Breakthrough · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Rich Franklin beat Matt Hamill

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
0:39
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

RF
Red corner RichFranklin“Ace”Team Extreme · Cincinnati, Ohio
VSOn the tape
MH
Blue corner MattHamill“The Hammer”Independent · Loveland, Ohio
Light Heavyweight3 rounds6 Sep 2008
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Hamill.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Franklin.
29-7
Record
12-8
33
Age
−2 yr31
6' 1"
Height
6' 1"
76″
Reach
76″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+712
UFC bouts
5
+5%8/1080% of wins
Finishes
3/475% of wins
Team Extreme
Gym
Independent
Cincinnati, Ohio
From
Loveland, Ohio
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
Rich Franklin29 sig landed
HEAD45%13 of 37BODY10%3 of 4LEGS45%13 of 13
Matt Hamill6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%3 of 3
29 of 54
Sig.
strikes
6 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:27
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action
Rich Franklin37 sig landed
HEAD54%20 of 55BODY14%5 of 6LEGS32%12 of 12
Matt Hamill6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 21BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
37 of 73
Sig.
strikes
6 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:02
Control
0:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 34Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 30:39 of action⚡ 1 KD FranklinEnded 0:39
Rich Franklin5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 5BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Matt Hamill1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
5 of 9
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
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

Rich Franklin

Round
3
Clock
0:39
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.

Rich Franklin

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.00 / 15m
1.98 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.82 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
34%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Matt Hamill

3.00takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Rich Franklin→ no move
open 68.9%close 68.4%
Matt Hamill→ no move
open 31.1%close 31.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Rich Franklin opened at 68.9% and closed at 68.4% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp 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
Rich Franklin-280-23068.9%68.4%−0.5pp
Matt Hamill20021031.1%31.6%+0.5pp
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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