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Events · UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall · Seth Baczynski vs Lance Benoist
From the tape · 8 Jun 2012

Seth Baczynski vs Lance Benoist

UFC on FX: Johnson vs McCall · Sunrise, Florida, USA
Result

Seth Baczynski beat Lance Benoist

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Chris Adams

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.

SB
Red corner SethBaczynski“The Polish Pistola”Power MMA Team · Apache Junction, Arizona
VSOn the tape
LB
Blue corner LanceBenoistSt. Louis, Missouri
Welterweight3 rounds8 Jun 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 20 points more accurate striking than Baczynski.
20-14
Record
7-2
30
Age
−7 yr23
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+23
UFC bouts
1
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Apache Junction, Arizona
From
St. Louis, Missouri
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
Seth Baczynski10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 25BODY10%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Lance Benoist12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 14BODY67%8 of 10LEGS8%1 of 2
10 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:22
Control
1:04
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 2
Judges · this round · Baczynski firstHector Gomez10–9Rich Green10–9Barry Luxenberg9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Seth Baczynski5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 16BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Lance Benoist12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 15BODY25%3 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
5 of 18
Sig.
strikes
12 of 20
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:06
Control
2:53
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Baczynski firstHector Gomez9–10Rich Green9–10Barry Luxenberg9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Seth Baczynski10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 19BODY40%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Lance Benoist11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 9BODY55%6 of 6LEGS9%1 of 3
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 3
1:20
Control
2:34
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 3
Judges · this round · Baczynski firstHector Gomez10–9Rich Green10–9Barry Luxenberg9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Adams
Seth BaczynskiLance Benoist
Official totals — Seth Baczynski first
JudgeTotal
Hector Gomez29–28
Rich Green29–28
Barry Luxenberg27–30

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, Seth Baczynski first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Baczynski · 71%29-28 Benoist · 29%

7 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.

Seth Baczynski

0.89takedowns / 15 min
0.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.50 / 15m
5.56 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.55 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
33%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Lance Benoist

1.50takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Seth Baczynski↑ +0.7pp
open 52.0%close 52.7%
Lance Benoist↓ −0.7pp
open 48.0%close 47.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Seth Baczynski opened at 52.0% and closed at 52.7% (+0.7pp), with Lance Benoist 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
Seth Baczynski-125-11952.0%52.7%+0.7pp
Lance Benoist-10510548.0%47.3%−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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