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Events · UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen · Stefan Struve vs Christian Morecraft
From the tape · 7 Aug 2010

Stefan Struve vs Christian Morecraft

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

Stefan Struve beat Christian Morecraft

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:22
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

SS
Red corner StefanStruve“Skyscraper”Team Schrijber · Beverwijk, North Holland
VSOn the tape
CM
Blue corner ChristianMorecraftTeam Bombsquad · Plymouth, Massachusetts
Heavyweight3 rounds7 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Struve.
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Morecraft.
33-13
Record
8-3
−1 yr22
Age
23
+5″6' 11"
Height
6' 6"
+3″84″
Reach
81″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Schrijber
Gym
Team Bombsquad
Beverwijk, North Holland
From
Plymouth, Massachusetts
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 action3 sub attempts
Stefan Struve0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed

Christian Morecraft31 sig landed
HEAD90%28 of 56BODY10%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 0
Sig.
strikes
31 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:02
Control
4:39
0
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 31
Round 20:22 of action⚡ 1 KD StruveEnded 0:22
Stefan Struve11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 1
Christian Morecraft5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
11 of 19
Sig.
strikes
5 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:05
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 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

Stefan Struve

Round
2
Clock
0:22
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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Stefan Struve

0.56takedowns / 15 min
0.56 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.26 / 15m
1.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.94 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
66%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.20 / 15m

Christian Morecraft

3.26takedowns / 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.

Stefan Struve↑ +1.1pp
open 63.2%close 64.3%
Christian Morecraft↓ −1.1pp
open 36.8%close 35.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Stefan Struve opened at 63.2% and closed at 64.3% (+1.1pp), with Christian Morecraft 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
Stefan Struve-195-20063.2%64.3%+1.1pp
Christian Morecraft16017036.8%35.7%−1.1pp
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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