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Events · UFC 99: The Comeback · Mike Swick vs Ben Saunders
From the tape · 13 Jun 2009

Mike Swick vs Ben Saunders

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

Mike Swick beat Ben Saunders

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:47
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

MS
Red corner MikeSwick“Quick”AKA Thailand · San Jose, California
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds13 Jun 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
15-6
Record
22-13-2
29
Age
−3 yr26
6' 1"
Height
+1″6' 2"
77″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+69
UFC bouts
3
5/862% of wins
Finishes
+4%2/367% of wins
AKA Thailand
Gym
American Top Team Orlando
San Jose, California
From
Orlando, Florida
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mike Swick2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 11BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Saunders8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 7BODY62%5 of 5LEGS25%2 of 2
2 of 12
Sig.
strikes
8 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:35
Control
0:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 7Ground 0
Round 23:47 of action⚡ 1 KD SwickEnded 3:47
Mike Swick8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 21BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Saunders9 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY67%6 of 10LEGS33%3 of 4
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
9 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:50
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 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

Mike Swick

Round
2
Clock
3:47
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: Leon Roberts.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Mike Swick

1.06takedowns / 15 min
1.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.20 / 15m
2.12 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.50 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
40%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 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.

Mike Swick→ no move
open 63.2%close 63.5%
Ben Saunders→ no move
open 36.8%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Mike Swick opened at 63.2% and closed at 63.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp 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
Mike Swick-195-19063.2%63.5%+0.2pp
Ben Saunders16016536.8%36.5%−0.2pp
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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