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Events · UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2 · Mauricio Rua vs Dan Henderson
From the tape · 23 Mar 2014

Mauricio Rua vs Dan Henderson

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs Henderson 2 · Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Result

Dan Henderson beat Mauricio Rua

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 5
Clock
1:31
Light HeavyweightMainReferee · 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.

MR
Red corner MauricioRua“Shogun”Universidade da Luta · Curitiba, Parana
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DanHenderson“Hendo”Team Quest · Temecula, California
Light Heavyweight5 rounds23 Mar 2014
The story going in
  • Every one of Rua’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Henderson.
27-14-1
Record
32-15
−11 yr32
Age
43
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+2″76″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+112
UFC bouts
11
+83%6/6100% of wins
Finishes
1/617% of wins
Universidade da Luta
Gym
Team Quest
Curitiba, Parana
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rua
Mauricio Rua30 sig landed
HEAD57%17 of 41BODY10%3 of 5LEGS33%10 of 12
Dan Henderson10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 30BODY0%0 of 1LEGS40%4 of 4
30 of 58
Sig.
strikes
10 of 35
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:40
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 4Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Rua
Mauricio Rua12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 20BODY8%1 of 2LEGS17%2 of 2
Dan Henderson5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 8BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:45
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 31:31 of action⚡ 1 KD HendersonEnded 1:31
Mauricio Rua6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%1 of 1
Dan Henderson8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 13BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
8 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 4

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

Dan Henderson

Round
3
Clock
1:31
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.

Mauricio Rua

2.01takedowns / 15 min
2.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
4.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.92 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
52%
0.70 / 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 (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.

Mauricio Rua↓ −4.0pp
open 64.4%close 60.4%
Dan Henderson↑ +4.0pp
open 35.6%close 39.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mauricio Rua opened at 64.4% and closed at 60.4% (−4.0pp), with Dan Henderson 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
Mauricio Rua-215-16264.4%60.4%−4.0pp
Dan Henderson16514735.6%39.6%+4.0pp
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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