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Events · UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson · Joseph Benavidez vs Dustin Ortiz
From the tape · 22 Nov 2014

Joseph Benavidez vs Dustin Ortiz

UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson · Austin, Texas, USA
Result

Joseph Benavidez beat Dustin Ortiz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jacob Montalvo

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.

JB
Red corner JosephBenavidezXtreme Couture · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
DO
Blue corner DustinOrtizCombat Sports Academy · Franklin, Tennessee
Flyweight3 rounds22 Nov 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Ortiz.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Benavidez.
28-8
Record
19-8
30
Age
−5 yr25
5' 4"
Height
+1″5' 5"
65″
Reach
65″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+59
UFC bouts
4
+24%4/757% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Combat Sports Academy
Sacramento, California
From
Franklin, Tennessee
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
Joseph Benavidez35 sig landed
HEAD57%20 of 58BODY23%8 of 15LEGS20%7 of 7
Dustin Ortiz15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 52BODY13%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 80
Sig.
strikes
15 of 56
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:33
Control
0:00
Distance 31Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstJennie Cardenas10–9Anthony Townsend10–9Nick Wright10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joseph Benavidez34 sig landed
HEAD76%26 of 55BODY12%4 of 6LEGS12%4 of 5
Dustin Ortiz12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 44BODY25%3 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
34 of 66
Sig.
strikes
12 of 51
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:14
Control
0:19
Distance 25Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstJennie Cardenas10–9Anthony Townsend10–9Nick Wright10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joseph Benavidez25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 40BODY20%5 of 6LEGS24%6 of 7
Dustin Ortiz10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 36BODY20%2 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 53
Sig.
strikes
10 of 42
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:41
Control
0:24
Distance 17Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benavidez firstJennie Cardenas10–9Anthony Townsend10–9Nick Wright10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jacob Montalvo
Joseph BenavidezDustin Ortiz
Official totals — Joseph Benavidez first
JudgeTotal
Jennie Cardenas30–27
Anthony Townsend30–27
Nick Wright30–27

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 — 13 scored, Joseph Benavidez first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Felipe Freitas mmabrasil.com.br30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com30–27
Wrestling Observer30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Benavidez · 88%30-26 Benavidez · 6%29-28 Benavidez · 6%

17 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.

Joseph Benavidez

1.41takedowns / 15 min
1.41 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.01 / 15m
4.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.36 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
36%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Dustin Ortiz

3.01takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Joseph Benavidez↑ +4.6pp
open 75.5%close 80.2%
Dustin Ortiz↓ −4.6pp
open 24.5%close 19.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joseph Benavidez opened at 75.5% and closed at 80.2% (+4.6pp), with Dustin Ortiz 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
Joseph Benavidez-405-46975.5%80.2%+4.6pp
Dustin Ortiz28539024.5%19.8%−4.6pp
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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