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Events · UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II · Benson Henderson vs Frankie Edgar
From the tape · 11 Aug 2012

Benson Henderson vs Frankie Edgar

UFC 150: Henderson vs Edgar II · Denver, Colorado, USA
Result

Benson Henderson beat Frankie Edgar

Method
Decision - Split
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.

BH
Red corner BensonHenderson“Smooth”MMA Lab · Glendale, Arizona
VSOn the tape
FE
Blue corner FrankieEdgar“The Answer”Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Toms River, New Jersey
Lightweight Title5 rounds11 Aug 2012
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Henderson.
24-7
Record
23-11-1
−2 yr28
Age
30
+3″5' 9"
Height
5' 6"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+812
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+33%3/933% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Glendale, Arizona
From
Toms River, New Jersey
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 action1 sub attempt
Benson Henderson11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 18BODY18%2 of 3LEGS45%5 of 7
Frankie Edgar7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 20BODY0%0 of 2LEGS57%4 of 6
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
7 of 28
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:07
Control
0:25
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstDave Hagen10–9Mark Van Tine10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Edgar1 sub attempt
Benson Henderson7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 12BODY29%2 of 3LEGS43%3 of 4
Frankie Edgar10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 22BODY20%2 of 3LEGS20%2 of 3
7 of 19
Sig.
strikes
10 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
1:48
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Henderson firstDave Hagen9–10Mark Van Tine9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Benson Henderson13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 30BODY31%4 of 5LEGS31%4 of 4
Frankie Edgar15 sig landed
HEAD13%2 of 17BODY53%8 of 11LEGS33%5 of 7
13 of 39
Sig.
strikes
15 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstDave Hagen10–9Mark Van Tine10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Benson Henderson17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 33BODY24%4 of 5LEGS24%4 of 5
Frankie Edgar15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 33BODY20%3 of 4LEGS27%4 of 6
17 of 43
Sig.
strikes
15 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:46
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Henderson firstDave Hagen10–9Mark Van Tine10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Benson Henderson16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 31BODY12%2 of 3LEGS6%1 of 4
Frankie Edgar19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 34BODY21%4 of 7LEGS26%5 of 7
16 of 38
Sig.
strikes
19 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstDave Hagen9–10Mark Van Tine9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Benson HendersonFrankie Edgar
Official totals — Benson Henderson first
JudgeTotal
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide48–47
Mark Van Tine48–47
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide46–49

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 — 9 scored, Benson Henderson first · unofficial

TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com48–48
Fight Metric.com48–48
MM AJunkie.com47–48
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com47–48
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com46–49
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com46–49
Mike Chiappetta MMAFighting.com46–49
MM AWeekly.com46–49
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Edgar · 57%48-47 Edgar · 20%48-47 Henderson · 8%49-47 Edgar · 4%

412 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.

Benson Henderson

2.40takedowns / 15 min
2.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.29 / 15m
5.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.39 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
31%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Frankie Edgar

2.29takedowns / 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.

Benson Henderson↑ +5.0pp
open 59.2%close 64.1%
Frankie Edgar↓ −5.0pp
open 40.8%close 35.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Benson Henderson opened at 59.2% and closed at 64.1% (+5.0pp), with Frankie Edgar 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
Benson Henderson-170-19259.2%64.1%+5.0pp
Frankie Edgar13017240.8%35.9%−5.0pp
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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