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Events · UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 · Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos
From the tape · 19 Oct 2013

Cain Velasquez vs Junior Dos Santos

UFC 166: Velasquez vs Dos Santos 3 · Houston, Texas, USA
Result

Cain Velasquez beat Junior Dos Santos

Method
KO/TKO
Round
5 of 5
Clock
3:09
Heavyweight 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.

CV
Red corner CainVelasquezAmerican Kickboxing Academy · Salinas, California
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
Heavyweight Title5 rounds19 Oct 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 10 UFC wins.
14-3
Record
21-9
31
Age
−2 yr29
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
77″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
11
8/1080% of wins
Finishes
8/1080% of wins
Salinas, California
From
Cacador, Santa Catarina
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Cain Velasquez22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 21BODY18%4 of 5LEGS23%5 of 7
Junior Dos Santos10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 20BODY40%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 33
Sig.
strikes
10 of 26
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:03
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 12Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 1
Round 25:00 of action
Cain Velasquez18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 23BODY6%1 of 1LEGS39%7 of 8
Junior Dos Santos7 sig landed
HEAD100%7 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:41
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Velasquez1 sub attempt
Cain Velasquez39 sig landed
HEAD87%34 of 59BODY0%0 landedLEGS13%5 of 5
Junior Dos Santos8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 19BODY12%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 64
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:37
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 19Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 45:00 of action
Cain Velasquez33 sig landed
HEAD88%29 of 49BODY6%2 of 2LEGS6%2 of 3
Junior Dos Santos15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 38BODY20%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 54
Sig.
strikes
15 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:26
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 19Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 9Ground 0
Round 53:09 of action1 sub attemptEnded 3:09
Cain Velasquez11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 16BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 2
Junior Dos Santos6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 10BODY33%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 18
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:36
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 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

Cain Velasquez

Round
5
Clock
3:09
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: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Cain Velasquez

5.13takedowns / 15 min
5.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
11.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.60 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Cain Velasquez↑ +3.7pp
open 61.6%close 65.4%
Junior Dos Santos↓ −3.7pp
open 38.4%close 34.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cain Velasquez opened at 61.6% and closed at 65.4% (+3.7pp), with Junior Dos Santos 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
Cain Velasquez-180-20761.6%65.4%+3.7pp
Junior Dos Santos15018038.4%34.6%−3.7pp
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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