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History · 2010 · UFC Live: Vera vs Jones · Junior Dos Santos vs Gabriel Gonzaga
From the tape · 21 Mar 2010

Junior Dos Santos vs Gabriel Gonzaga

UFC Live: Vera vs Jones · Broomfield, Colorado, USA
Result

Junior Dos Santos beat Gabriel Gonzaga

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
3:53
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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
GG
Blue corner GabrielGonzaga“Napao”Team Link · Rio de Janeiro
Heavyweight3 rounds21 Mar 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Gonzaga’s 7 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Santos’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Santos.
21-9
Record
17-11
−4 yr26
Age
30
+2″6' 4"
Height
6' 2"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+610
4/4100% of wins
Finishes
7/7100% of wins
Cacador, Santa Catarina
From
Rio de Janeiro
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

1 round of tape

Round 13:53 of action⚡ 1 KD SantosEnded 3:53
Junior Dos Santos20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 27BODY25%5 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Gabriel Gonzaga9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 10BODY11%1 of 2LEGS67%6 of 7
20 of 35
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:09
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 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
1
Clock
3:53
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: Josh Rosenthal.

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
2.80 / 15m
0.60 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.18 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
39%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Gabriel Gonzaga

2.80takedowns / 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→ no move
open 70.6%close 70.2%
Gabriel Gonzaga→ no move
open 29.4%close 29.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Junior Dos Santos opened at 70.6% and closed at 70.2% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp 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
Junior Dos Santos-285-25070.6%70.2%−0.4pp
Gabriel Gonzaga22523029.4%29.8%+0.4pp
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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