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Events · UFC 95: Sanchez vs Stevenson · Diego Sanchez vs Joe Stevenson
From the tape · 21 Feb 2009

Diego Sanchez vs Joe Stevenson

UFC 95: Sanchez vs Stevenson · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Joe Stevenson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · 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.

DS
Red corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner JoeStevenson“Daddy”Joe Stevenson's Cobra Kai · Victorville, California
Lightweight3 rounds21 Feb 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Sanchez.
31-13
Record
33-16
27
Age
−1 yr26
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+110
UFC bouts
9
5/862% of wins
Finishes
+4%4/667% of wins
Jackson-Wink MMA
Gym
Joe Stevenson's Cobra Kai
Albuquerque, New Mexico
From
Victorville, California
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 — 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
Diego Sanchez36 sig landed
HEAD81%29 of 57BODY19%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Stevenson11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 53BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 66
Sig.
strikes
11 of 54
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstHoward Hughes10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Diego Sanchez31 sig landed
HEAD84%26 of 46BODY16%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Stevenson9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 33BODY22%2 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
31 of 53
Sig.
strikes
9 of 37
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:45
Control
0:15
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstHoward Hughes10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Diego Sanchez24 sig landed
HEAD83%20 of 67BODY17%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Joe Stevenson21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 49BODY19%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
24 of 74
Sig.
strikes
21 of 54
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanchez firstHoward Hughes10–9Andy Roberts10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Diego SanchezJoe Stevenson
Official totals — Diego Sanchez first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 5 scored, Diego Sanchez first · unofficial

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

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Sanchez · 57%30-28 Stevenson · 14%29-28 Sanchez · 14%

7 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.

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 15 min
1.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.75 / 15m
6.29 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.25 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
44%
0.80 / 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 (5.32 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.

Diego Sanchez↑ +6.2pp
open 68.4%close 74.6%
Joe Stevenson↓ −6.2pp
open 31.6%close 25.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Diego Sanchez opened at 68.4% and closed at 74.6% (+6.2pp), with Joe Stevenson 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
Diego Sanchez-260-34068.4%74.6%+6.2pp
Joe Stevenson20028031.6%25.4%−6.2pp
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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