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History · 2010 · The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs Team Ortiz Finale · Chris Leben vs Aaron Simpson
From the tape · 19 Jun 2010

Chris Leben vs Aaron Simpson

The Ultimate Fighter: Team Liddell vs Team Ortiz Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Chris Leben beat Aaron Simpson

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:17
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · 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.

CL
Red corner ChrisLeben“The Crippler”Alliance MMA · Portland, Oregon
VSOn the tape
AS
Blue corner AaronSimpson“A-Train”Power MMA Team · Phoenix, Arizona
Middleweight3 rounds19 Jun 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Simpson.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
22-11
Record
12-5
−6 yr29
Age
35
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
73″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1114
UFC bouts
3
6/967% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Power MMA Team
Portland, Oregon
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Chris Leben12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 21BODY17%2 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Aaron Simpson26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 30BODY12%3 of 5LEGS19%5 of 5
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
26 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:40
Control
2:44
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 14Ground 4
Round 24:17 of actionEnded 4:17
Chris Leben30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 53BODY0%0 of 2LEGS27%8 of 12
Aaron Simpson17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 29BODY35%6 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
30 of 67
Sig.
strikes
17 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:05
Control
1:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 9Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 6Ground 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

Chris Leben

Round
2
Clock
4:17
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.

Chris Leben

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.78 / 15m
2.78 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.12 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
34%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Aaron Simpson

3.78takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Chris Leben↓ −1.0pp
open 26.8%close 25.8%
Aaron Simpson↑ +1.0pp
open 73.2%close 74.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Leben opened at 26.8% and closed at 25.8% (−1.0pp), with Aaron Simpson 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
Chris Leben25528026.8%25.8%−1.0pp
Aaron Simpson-335-31073.2%74.2%+1.0pp
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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