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History · 2009 · UFC 99: The Comeback · John Hathaway vs Rick Story
From the tape · 13 Jun 2009

John Hathaway vs Rick Story

UFC 99: The Comeback · Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Result

John Hathaway beat Rick Story

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

JH
Red corner JohnHathaway“The Hitman”London Shootfighters · Brighton, Sussex
VSOn the tape
RS
Blue corner RickStory“The Horror”MMA Lab · Tacoma, Washington
Welterweight3 rounds13 Jun 2009
17-2
Record
19-9
−3 yr21
Age
24
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
London Shootfighters
Gym
MMA Lab
Brighton, Sussex
From
Tacoma, Washington
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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 action3 sub attempts
John Hathaway13 sig landed
HEAD8%1 of 6BODY46%6 of 9LEGS46%6 of 6
Rick Story8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 6BODY88%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
13 of 21
Sig.
strikes
8 of 14
2 of 5
Take-
downs
2 of 2
2:55
Control
1:30
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 10Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 5Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hathaway firstHoward Hughes10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
John Hathaway10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 28BODY30%3 of 5LEGS40%4 of 6
Rick Story8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 22BODY38%3 of 6LEGS12%1 of 1
10 of 39
Sig.
strikes
8 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:54
Control
0:13
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hathaway firstHoward Hughes10–9
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
John Hathaway8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 19BODY38%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Rick Story5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 22BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 25
Sig.
strikes
5 of 24
1 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:02
Control
2:25
1
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Hathaway firstHoward Hughes10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
John HathawayRick Story
Official totals — John Hathaway first
JudgeTotal
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 1 scored, John Hathaway first · unofficial

Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hathaway · 100%

3 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.

John Hathaway

2.61takedowns / 15 min
2.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.53 / 15m
6.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.27 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
48%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Rick Story

2.53takedowns / 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.

John Hathaway↓ −22.3pp
open 81.1%close 58.8%
Rick Story↑ +22.3pp
open 18.9%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Hathaway opened at 81.1% and closed at 58.8% (−22.3pp), with Rick Story 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
John Hathaway-600-15581.1%58.8%−22.3pp
Rick Story40013518.9%41.2%+22.3pp
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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