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Events · UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields · Mark Bocek vs Benson Henderson
From the tape · 30 Apr 2011

Mark Bocek vs Benson Henderson

UFC 129: St-Pierre vs Shields · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Benson Henderson beat Mark Bocek

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

MB
Red corner MarkBocekTristar Gym · Toronto, Ontario
VSOn the tape
BH
Blue corner BensonHenderson“Smooth”MMA Lab · Glendale, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds30 Apr 2011
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Bocek.
  • Averages 1.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Henderson.
12-5
Record
24-7
29
Age
−2 yr27
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
+5″75″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Tristar Gym
Gym
MMA Lab
Toronto, Ontario
From
Glendale, Arizona
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
Mark Bocek5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 11BODY20%1 of 3LEGS40%2 of 3
Benson Henderson14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 33BODY14%2 of 3LEGS36%5 of 7
5 of 17
Sig.
strikes
14 of 43
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 3
Judges · this round · Bocek firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Claude Paquette9–10
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Mark Bocek1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Benson Henderson24 sig landed
HEAD42%10 of 28BODY42%10 of 13LEGS17%4 of 4
1 of 5
Sig.
strikes
24 of 45
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:57
Control
2:34
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 18Ground 3
Judges · this round · Bocek firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Claude Paquette9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mark Bocek5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 11BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Benson Henderson18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 27BODY39%7 of 9LEGS11%2 of 2
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
18 of 38
2 of 3
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:59
Control
1:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 7Ground 7
Judges · this round · Bocek firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Claude Paquette9–10

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 · Yves Lavigne
Mark BocekBenson Henderson
Official totals — Mark Bocek first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Claude Paquette27–30

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.

Media cards — 6 scored, Mark Bocek first · unofficial

TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–30
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–30
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Henderson · 77%29-28 Bocek · 15%30-28 Henderson · 8%

13 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.

Mark Bocek

3.65takedowns / 15 min
3.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.40 / 15m
10.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.33 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
45%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Benson Henderson

2.40takedowns / 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.

Mark Bocek↓ −0.7pp
open 41.7%close 41.0%
Benson Henderson↑ +0.7pp
open 58.3%close 59.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mark Bocek opened at 41.7% and closed at 41.0% (−0.7pp), with Benson Henderson 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
Mark Bocek12514041.7%41.0%−0.7pp
Benson Henderson-165-15058.3%59.0%+0.7pp
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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