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History · 2010 · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Roy Nelson vs Junior Dos Santos
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Roy Nelson vs Junior Dos Santos

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

Junior Dos Santos beat Roy Nelson

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

RN
Red corner RoyNelson“Big Country”Country Club · Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
Heavyweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Santos’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
22-14
Record
21-9
34
Age
−8 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+4″6' 4"
73″
Reach
+4″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+35
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
5/5100% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Cacador, Santa Catarina
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 Santos
Roy Nelson11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 24BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Junior Dos Santos49 sig landed
HEAD80%39 of 81BODY20%10 of 13LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
49 of 95
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:57
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 13Ground 1
Judges · this round · Nelson firstAlejandro Rochin9–10Dan Stell9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Roy Nelson8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Junior Dos Santos27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 69BODY26%7 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 31
Sig.
strikes
27 of 80
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:34
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstAlejandro Rochin9–10Dan Stell9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Roy Nelson21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 44BODY5%1 of 1LEGS5%1 of 1
Junior Dos Santos54 sig landed
HEAD69%37 of 86BODY30%16 of 20LEGS2%1 of 1
21 of 46
Sig.
strikes
54 of 107
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:09
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 48Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nelson firstAlejandro Rochin9–10Dan Stell9–10

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 · Marcos Rosales
Roy NelsonJunior Dos Santos
Official totals — Roy Nelson first
JudgeTotal
Alejandro Rochin27–30
Dan Stell27–30

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 dos Santos · 79%30-27 dos Santos · 21%

19 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.

Roy Nelson

1.14takedowns / 15 min
1.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
4.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.60 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
50%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 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.

Roy Nelson↓ −3.5pp
open 27.2%close 23.7%
Junior Dos Santos↑ +3.5pp
open 72.8%close 76.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Roy Nelson opened at 27.2% and closed at 23.7% (−3.5pp), with Junior Dos Santos 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
Roy Nelson25031527.2%23.7%−3.5pp
Junior Dos Santos-325-34572.8%76.3%+3.5pp
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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