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History · 2010 · UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · George Sotiropoulos vs Kurt Pellegrino
From the tape · 3 Jul 2010

George Sotiropoulos vs Kurt Pellegrino

UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

George Sotiropoulos beat Kurt Pellegrino

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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.

GS
Red corner GeorgeSotiropoulosAmerican Top Team · Geelong, Victoria
VSOn the tape
KP
Blue corner KurtPellegrino“Batman”Pellegrino MMA · Point Pleasant, New Jersey
Lightweight3 rounds3 Jul 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
14-7
Record
16-7
32
Age
−1 yr31
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
+1″71″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+510
+9%4/580% of wins
Finishes
5/771% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Pellegrino MMA
Geelong, Victoria
From
Point Pleasant, New Jersey
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Sotiropoulos
George Sotiropoulos20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 78BODY5%1 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Kurt Pellegrino14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 44BODY7%1 of 2LEGS14%2 of 4
20 of 86
Sig.
strikes
14 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:22
Control
0:57
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 25:00 of action
George Sotiropoulos12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 27BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kurt Pellegrino8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 19BODY12%1 of 1LEGS12%1 of 2
12 of 27
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:49
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD PellegrinoEnded 5:00
George Sotiropoulos16 sig landed
HEAD100%16 of 47BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Kurt Pellegrino17 sig landed
HEAD94%16 of 35BODY6%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 49
Sig.
strikes
17 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:35
Control
2:14
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 3
Judges · this round · Sotiropoulos firstSal D'Amato10–9Nelson Hamilton10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
George SotiropoulosKurt Pellegrino
Official totals — George Sotiropoulos first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 5 scored, George Sotiropoulos first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Jack Encarnacao Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sotiropoulos · 86%30-27 Sotiropoulos · 14%

7 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

George Sotiropoulos

2.32takedowns / 15 min
2.32 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.90 / 15m
7.48 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.37 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
54%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kurt Pellegrino

2.90takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

George Sotiropoulos→ no move
open 59.9%close 60.3%
Kurt Pellegrino→ no move
open 40.1%close 39.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. George Sotiropoulos opened at 59.9% and closed at 60.3% 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
George Sotiropoulos-175-15859.9%60.3%+0.4pp
Kurt Pellegrino13514840.1%39.7%−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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