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Events · UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez · Stefan Struve vs Paul Buentello
From the tape · 12 Dec 2009

Stefan Struve vs Paul Buentello

UFC 107: Penn vs Sanchez · Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Result

Stefan Struve beat Paul Buentello

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · 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.

SS
Red corner StefanStruve“Skyscraper”Team Schrijber · Beverwijk, North Holland
VSOn the tape
PB
Blue corner PaulBuentello“The Headhunter”Grudge Training Center · Amarillo, Texas
Heavyweight3 rounds12 Dec 2009
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Buentello’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 16 points more takedown defence than Buentello.
33-13
Record
35-17
−14 yr21
Age
35
+9″6' 11"
Height
6' 2"
+7″84″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+14
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Team Schrijber
Gym
Grudge Training Center
Beverwijk, North Holland
From
Amarillo, Texas
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 action2 sub attempts
Stefan Struve6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 8BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
Paul Buentello6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 7BODY83%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:32
Control
0:52
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 5
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Buentello
Stefan Struve20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 38BODY20%4 of 6LEGS15%3 of 3
Paul Buentello20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 37BODY15%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 47
Sig.
strikes
20 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:48
Control
0:48
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 7Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Stefan Struve28 sig landed
HEAD25%7 of 33BODY14%4 of 5LEGS61%17 of 19
Paul Buentello11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 34BODY9%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
28 of 57
Sig.
strikes
11 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:12
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Stefan Struve

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.19 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.58 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
33%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Paul Buentello

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.

Stefan Struve↑ +2.2pp
open 56.0%close 58.2%
Paul Buentello↓ −2.2pp
open 44.0%close 41.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stefan Struve opened at 56.0% and closed at 58.2% (+2.2pp), with Paul Buentello 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
Stefan Struve-145-14556.0%58.2%+2.2pp
Paul Buentello11513544.0%41.8%−2.2pp
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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