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Events · UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche · Lyoto Machida vs Dan Henderson
From the tape · 23 Feb 2013

Lyoto Machida vs Dan Henderson

UFC 157: Rousey vs Carmouche · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Lyoto Machida beat Dan Henderson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

LM
Red corner LyotoMachida“The Dragon”Belem, Para
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DanHenderson“Hendo”Team Quest · Temecula, California
Light Heavyweight3 rounds23 Feb 2013
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Henderson.
24-8
Record
32-15
−8 yr34
Age
42
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
74″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+513
UFC bouts
8
+33%5/1050% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Belem, Para
From
Temecula, California
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
Lyoto Machida10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 11BODY40%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Dan Henderson12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 11BODY33%4 of 4LEGS50%6 of 13
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
12 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Cecil Peoples9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Lyoto Machida11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 18BODY36%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
Dan Henderson6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 14BODY17%1 of 4LEGS50%3 of 8
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
6 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Machida firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary9–10Cecil Peoples10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Lyoto Machida6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 7BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
Dan Henderson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%1 of 3
6 of 11
Sig.
strikes
2 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:53
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Machida firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Cecil Peoples9–10

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
Lyoto MachidaDan Henderson
Official totals — Lyoto Machida first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide28–29

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 — 14 scored, Lyoto Machida first · unofficial

Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
Fight Metric.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Machida · 39%29-28 Machida · 26%29-28 Henderson · 18%30-27 Henderson · 5%

220 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.

Lyoto Machida

1.21takedowns / 15 min
1.21 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
1.86 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.92 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
52%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Dan Henderson

1.52takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Lyoto Machida→ no move
open 65.3%close 65.3%
Dan Henderson→ no move
open 34.7%close 34.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Lyoto Machida opened at 65.3% and closed at 65.3% once the vig is taken out — a 0.0pp 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
Lyoto Machida-230-20365.3%65.3%+0.0pp
Dan Henderson17018134.7%34.7%−0.0pp
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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