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Events · UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson · Benson Henderson vs Josh Thomson
From the tape · 25 Jan 2014

Benson Henderson vs Josh Thomson

UFC on FOX: Henderson vs Thomson · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Result

Benson Henderson beat Josh Thomson

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
LightweightMainReferee · John McCarthy

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
JT
Blue corner JoshThomson“The Punk”American Kickboxing Academy · San Jose, California
Lightweight5 rounds25 Jan 2014
The story going in
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Thomson.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
24-7
Record
22-9
−5 yr30
Age
35
5' 9"
Height
+1″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+1″71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
0/70% of wins
Finishes
+67%2/367% of wins
MMA Lab
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
Glendale, Arizona
From
San Jose, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Benson Henderson1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
Josh Thomson1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
1 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:01
Control
3:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstSal D'Amato9–10Brian Puccillo9–10Gabriel Sabaitis9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Benson Henderson11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 11BODY64%7 of 11LEGS18%2 of 2
Josh Thomson6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 6BODY67%4 of 7LEGS17%1 of 2
11 of 24
Sig.
strikes
6 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:14
Control
0:47
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstSal D'Amato10–9Brian Puccillo9–10Gabriel Sabaitis10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Benson Henderson17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 19BODY35%6 of 6LEGS12%2 of 5
Josh Thomson2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY100%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
2 of 10
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:29
Control
0:30
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstSal D'Amato10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Gabriel Sabaitis10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Benson Henderson6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 3BODY0%0 of 3LEGS67%4 of 4
Josh Thomson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 2LEGS50%1 of 1
6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 11
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 2
1:00
Control
2:41
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstSal D'Amato10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Gabriel Sabaitis9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Benson Henderson11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 12BODY64%7 of 7LEGS9%1 of 2
Josh Thomson8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 11BODY12%1 of 4LEGS50%4 of 5
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
8 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:17
Control
0:41
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Henderson firstSal D'Amato10–9Brian Puccillo10–9Gabriel Sabaitis9–10

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 · John McCarthy
Benson HendersonJosh Thomson
Official totals — Benson Henderson first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide49–46
Brian Puccillo1.8 avg spread · 36% wide48–47
Gabriel Sabaitis47–48

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 — 16 scored, Benson Henderson first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
MM AWeekly.com49–46
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com47–48
John Pollock Fight Network47–48
Paul- Delos Santos Las Vegas Sun47–48
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com47–48
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com47–48
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com47–48
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com47–48
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com47–48
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com47–48
Fight Metric.com47–49
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com46–49
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com46–49
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Thomson · 37%49-46 Thomson · 29%48-47 Henderson · 14%49-46 Henderson · 6%

477 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
1.92 / 15m
5.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.92 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
39%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Josh Thomson

1.92takedowns / 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↑ +10.0pp
open 63.8%close 73.7%
Josh Thomson↓ −10.0pp
open 36.2%close 26.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Benson Henderson opened at 63.8% and closed at 73.7% (+10.0pp), with Josh Thomson 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-210-31563.8%73.7%+10.0pp
Josh Thomson16027036.2%26.3%−10.0pp
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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