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History · 2009 · UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Junior Dos Santos vs Mirko Filipovic
From the tape · 19 Sep 2009

Junior Dos Santos vs Mirko Filipovic

UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Junior Dos Santos beat Mirko Filipovic

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:00
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

JS
Red corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
MF
Blue corner MirkoFilipovic“Cro Cop”Cro Cop Top Team · Zagreb
Heavyweight3 rounds19 Sep 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Filipovic.
21-9
Record
35-11-2
−10 yr25
Age
35
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+4″77″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+24
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Cacador, Santa Catarina
From
Zagreb
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
Junior Dos Santos21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 33BODY52%11 of 13LEGS14%3 of 3
Mirko Filipovic7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 12BODY57%4 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 49
Sig.
strikes
7 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:32
Control
0:19
Distance 13Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Junior Dos Santos28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 47BODY57%16 of 22LEGS0%0 landed
Mirko Filipovic10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 14BODY10%1 of 1LEGS30%3 of 3
28 of 69
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 32:00 of actionEnded 2:00
Junior Dos Santos21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 23BODY57%12 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
Mirko Filipovic5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%1 of 1
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
5 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:11
Control
0:04
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 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

Junior Dos Santos

Round
3
Clock
2:00
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: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 15 min
0.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.19 / 15m
0.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.47 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Mirko Filipovic

0.19takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Junior Dos Santos↑ +14.9pp
open 44.9%close 59.8%
Mirko Filipovic↓ −14.9pp
open 55.1%close 40.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Junior Dos Santos opened at 44.9% and closed at 59.8% (+14.9pp), with Mirko Filipovic 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
Junior Dos Santos110-15544.9%59.8%+14.9pp
Mirko Filipovic-14014555.1%40.2%−14.9pp
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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