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Events · UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver · Donald Cerrone vs Benson Henderson
From the tape · 18 Jan 2015

Donald Cerrone vs Benson Henderson

UFC Fight Night: McGregor vs Siver · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Donald Cerrone beat Benson Henderson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

DC
Red corner DonaldCerrone“Cowboy”BMF Ranch · Broomfield, Colorado
VSOn the tape
BH
Blue corner BensonHenderson“Smooth”MMA Lab · Glendale, Arizona
Lightweight3 rounds18 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Cerrone.
  • Has finished 8 of 13 UFC wins.
36-17
Record
24-7
31
Age
31
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+516
UFC bouts
11
+50%8/1362% of wins
Finishes
1/911% of wins
BMF Ranch
Gym
MMA Lab
Broomfield, Colorado
From
Glendale, Arizona
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
Donald Cerrone19 sig landed
HEAD32%6 of 28BODY42%8 of 9LEGS26%5 of 6
Benson Henderson27 sig landed
HEAD15%4 of 22BODY15%4 of 5LEGS70%19 of 20
19 of 43
Sig.
strikes
27 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstDouglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Mike Mena9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Donald Cerrone16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 23BODY38%6 of 9LEGS25%4 of 6
Benson Henderson34 sig landed
HEAD6%2 of 26BODY26%9 of 12LEGS68%23 of 24
16 of 38
Sig.
strikes
34 of 62
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstDouglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Mike Mena10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Donald Cerrone22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 25BODY27%6 of 10LEGS41%9 of 9
Benson Henderson25 sig landed
HEAD28%7 of 23BODY28%7 of 12LEGS44%11 of 11
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
25 of 46
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Cerrone firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Mike Mena10–9

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 · Yves Lavigne
Donald CerroneBenson Henderson
Official totals — Donald Cerrone first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Mike Mena29–28

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, Donald Cerrone first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Henderson · 36%29-28 Cerrone · 30%30-27 Henderson · 21%30-27 Cerrone · 4%

407 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.

Donald Cerrone

1.16takedowns / 15 min
1.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.40 / 15m
3.52 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.33 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
45%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Benson Henderson

2.40takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Donald Cerrone↑ +3.8pp
open 40.4%close 44.2%
Benson Henderson↓ −3.8pp
open 59.6%close 55.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Donald Cerrone opened at 40.4% and closed at 44.2% (+3.8pp), with Benson 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
Donald Cerrone14012040.4%44.2%+3.8pp
Benson Henderson-160-13559.6%55.8%−3.8pp
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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