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History · 2011 · UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson · Walel Watson vs Joseph Sandoval
From the tape · 1 Oct 2011

Walel Watson vs Joseph Sandoval

UFC Live: Cruz vs Johnson · Washington, DC, USA
Result

Walel Watson beat Joseph Sandoval

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
1:17
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

WW
Red corner WalelWatson“The Gazelle”Team Bodyshop · San Diego, California
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner JosephSandovalBighead MMA · Lubbock, Texas
Bantamweight3 rounds1 Oct 2011
The story going in
  • Carries 61 points more takedown defence than Sandoval.
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Watson.
14-10
Record
7-7
27
Age
−2 yr25
+4″5' 11"
Height
5' 7"
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Team Bodyshop
Gym
Bighead MMA
San Diego, California
From
Lubbock, Texas
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

1 round of tape

Round 11:17 of action⚡ 2 KD WatsonEnded 1:17
Walel Watson9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 24BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%3 of 3
Joseph Sandoval0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

9 of 28
Sig.
strikes
0 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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

Walel Watson

Round
1
Clock
1:17
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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Walel Watson

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.00takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.00 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.08 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m−2.08 vs field
ATTEMPTS
Attempts per 15 needs both a landed rate and a completion rate; one of them is missing, so we do not divide.
n/a
ACCURACY
No takedown attempt on the record — UFCStats writes 0% here, which is not a completion rate.
n/a
SUB ATT83
1.40 / 15m+0.33 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Walel Watson→ no move
open 49.0%close 48.8%
Joseph Sandoval→ no move
open 51.0%close 51.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Walel Watson opened at 49.0% and closed at 48.8% once the vig is taken out — a 0.2pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Walel Watson-110-10049.0%48.8%−0.2pp
Joseph Sandoval-120-11051.0%51.2%+0.2pp
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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