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History · 2010 · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Ben Saunders vs Dennis Hallman
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Ben Saunders vs Dennis Hallman

UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Oakland, California, USA
Result

Dennis Hallman beat Ben Saunders

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Marcos Rosales

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.

BS
Red corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DennisHallman“Superman”Victory Athletics · Yelm, Washington
Welterweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 41 points more takedown defence than Hallman.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Saunders.
22-13-2
Record
53-20-2
−7 yr27
Age
34
+5″6' 2"
Height
5' 9"
+5″77″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+16
UFC bouts
5
3/475% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
American Top Team Orlando
Gym
Victory Athletics
Orlando, Florida
From
Yelm, Washington
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
Ben Saunders1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Dennis Hallman9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
4:50
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 9
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Ben Saunders6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY83%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Dennis Hallman9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 12BODY11%1 of 1LEGS11%1 of 2
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
9 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 7
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ben Saunders23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 24BODY30%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Dennis Hallman10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 18BODY0%0 of 1LEGS20%2 of 2
23 of 32
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
2:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 5
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marcos Rosales
Official totals — Ben Saunders first
JudgeTotal
Nelson Hamilton2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Susan Thomas-Gitlin27–30
Alejandro Rochin28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 3 scored, Ben Saunders first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hallman · 67%30-27 Hallman · 33%

3 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.

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 15 min
0.20 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.79 / 15m
0.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.97 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
30%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.10 / 15m

Dennis Hallman

1.79takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Ben Saunders↑ +13.3pp
open 59.2%close 72.4%
Dennis Hallman↓ −13.3pp
open 40.8%close 27.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ben Saunders opened at 59.2% and closed at 72.4% (+13.3pp), with Dennis Hallman 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
Ben Saunders-170-30059.2%72.4%+13.3pp
Dennis Hallman13025040.8%27.6%−13.3pp
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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