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Events · UFC 152: Jones vs Belfort · Sean Pierson vs Lance Benoist
From the tape · 22 Sep 2012

Sean Pierson vs Lance Benoist

UFC 152: Jones vs Belfort · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Sean Pierson beat Lance Benoist

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Josh Rosenthal

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.

SP
Red corner SeanPierson“The Punisher”Tap Star · Toronto, Ontario
VSOn the tape
LB
Blue corner LanceBenoistSt. Louis, Missouri
Welterweight3 rounds22 Sep 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Benoist.
  • Is 12 points more accurate striking than Pierson.
14-6
Record
7-2
36
Age
−12 yr24
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+4″76″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+24
UFC bouts
2
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Toronto, Ontario
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Sean Pierson23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 43BODY26%6 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
Lance Benoist25 sig landed
HEAD40%10 of 40BODY36%9 of 11LEGS24%6 of 8
23 of 50
Sig.
strikes
25 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:03
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Sean Pierson21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 42BODY24%5 of 6LEGS14%3 of 3
Lance Benoist19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 42BODY16%3 of 4LEGS21%4 of 5
21 of 51
Sig.
strikes
19 of 51
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:46
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD BenoistEnded 5:00
Sean Pierson30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 47BODY20%6 of 7LEGS7%2 of 4
Lance Benoist47 sig landed
HEAD72%34 of 73BODY17%8 of 10LEGS11%5 of 7
30 of 58
Sig.
strikes
47 of 90
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:43
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 29Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 3Ground 11
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Josh Rosenthal
Official totals — Sean Pierson first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Jeff Blatnick2.0 avg spread · 40% wide29–28
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 9 scored, Sean Pierson first · unofficial

TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com29–28
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com29–28
Matthew Roth BleacherReport.com29–28
Adam Martin TheScore.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pierson · 100%

6 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.

Sean Pierson

0.39takedowns / 15 min
0.39 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.50 / 15m
2.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.55 / 15m
18%
ACCURACY
33%
0.40 / 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.

Sean Pierson↓ −8.3pp
open 40.8%close 32.5%
Lance Benoist↑ +8.3pp
open 59.2%close 67.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sean Pierson opened at 40.8% and closed at 32.5% (−8.3pp), 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
Sean Pierson13020040.8%32.5%−8.3pp
Lance Benoist-170-22559.2%67.5%+8.3pp
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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