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Events · UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Frankie Edgar vs BJ Penn
From the tape · 28 Aug 2010

Frankie Edgar vs BJ Penn

UFC 118: Edgar vs Penn 2 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Frankie Edgar beat BJ Penn

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Lightweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

FE
Red corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
VSOn the tape
BP
Blue corner BJPenn“The Prodigy”
Lightweight Title5 rounds28 Aug 2010
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 10 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Edgar.
23-11-1
Record
16-14-2
−3 yr28
Age
31
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
68″
Reach
+2″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
+917
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+62%10/1191% of wins
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Frankie Edgar8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 28BODY25%2 of 2LEGS25%2 of 3
BJ Penn8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 22BODY25%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 33
Sig.
strikes
8 of 25
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:48
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Frankie Edgar18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 38BODY33%6 of 10LEGS17%3 of 4
BJ Penn6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 40BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
18 of 52
Sig.
strikes
6 of 43
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Frankie Edgar30 sig landed
HEAD63%19 of 55BODY30%9 of 16LEGS7%2 of 5
BJ Penn12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 41BODY42%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 76
Sig.
strikes
12 of 48
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Frankie Edgar16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 29BODY12%2 of 4LEGS12%2 of 4
BJ Penn6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
16 of 37
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:40
Control
0:52
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Edgar firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Frankie Edgar22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 29BODY14%3 of 3LEGS18%4 of 4
BJ Penn4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 36
Sig.
strikes
4 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
2:37
Control
0:33
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Edgar firstSal D'Amato10–9David Ginsberg10–9Cecil Peoples10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Frankie EdgarBJ Penn
Official totals — Frankie Edgar first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–45
David Ginsberg50–45
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide50–45

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 — 7 scored, Frankie Edgar first · unofficial

Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com50–45
Loretta Hunt Sherdog.com50–45
MM AWeekly.com50–45
Tomas Rios Sherdog.com49–46
Fight Metric.com49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Edgar · 70%49-46 Edgar · 14%50-46 Edgar · 7%49-47 Edgar · 2%50-45 Penn · 2%

43 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.

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.19 / 15m
7.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.16 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
55%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

BJ Penn

1.19takedowns / 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.

Frankie Edgarclose only
no opening line on recordclose 28.3%
BJ Pennclose only
no opening line on recordclose 71.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Frankie Edgar 28.3%, BJ Penn 71.7%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Frankie Edgar27524828.3%
BJ Penn-27071.7%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for B.J. Penn, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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