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Events · UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson · Dan Henderson vs Rich Franklin
From the tape · 17 Jan 2009

Dan Henderson vs Rich Franklin

UFC 93: Franklin vs Henderson · Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Result

Dan Henderson beat Rich Franklin

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · 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.

DH
Red corner DanHenderson“Hendo”Team Quest · Temecula, California
VSOn the tape
RF
Blue corner RichFranklin“Ace”Team Extreme · Cincinnati, Ohio
Light Heavyweight3 rounds17 Jan 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 11 UFC wins.
32-15
Record
29-7
38
Age
−4 yr34
5' 11"
Height
+2″6' 1"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
5
UFC bouts
+813
0/30% of wins
Finishes
+82%9/1182% of wins
Team Quest
Gym
Team Extreme
Temecula, California
From
Cincinnati, Ohio
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dan Henderson18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 26BODY11%2 of 2LEGS39%7 of 8
Rich Franklin10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 13BODY70%7 of 7LEGS10%1 of 1
18 of 36
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:01
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstChris Watts9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Dan Henderson11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 24BODY9%1 of 2LEGS45%5 of 5
Rich Franklin8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 19BODY50%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
8 of 26
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:03
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstChris Watts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dan Henderson7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 14BODY0%0 of 1LEGS43%3 of 6
Rich Franklin21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 34BODY52%11 of 13LEGS10%2 of 2
7 of 21
Sig.
strikes
21 of 49
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:53
Control
1:29
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstChris Watts9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Dan HendersonRich Franklin
Official totals — Dan Henderson first
JudgeTotal
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide27–30

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 6 scored, Dan Henderson first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Lotfi Sariahmed Sherdog.com29–28
Fight Metric.com29–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Henderson · 60%29-28 Franklin · 21%30-27 Henderson · 8%30-27 Franklin · 4%30-28 Franklin · 2%

53 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.

Dan Henderson

1.52takedowns / 15 min
1.52 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
2.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.98 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
66%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Rich Franklin

1.31takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Dan Henderson↑ +6.3pp
open 46.9%close 53.2%
Rich Franklin↓ −6.3pp
open 53.1%close 46.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dan Henderson opened at 46.9% and closed at 53.2% (+6.3pp), with Rich Franklin 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
Dan Henderson100-12546.9%53.2%+6.3pp
Rich Franklin-13010553.1%46.8%−6.3pp
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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