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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Maximo Blanco vs Luke Sanders
From the tape · 17 Jan 2016

Maximo Blanco vs Luke Sanders

UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Result

Luke Sanders beat Maximo Blanco

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
3:38
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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.

MB
Red corner MaximoBlanco“Maxi”Yoshida Dojo · Caracas
VSOn the tape
LS
Blue corner LukeSanders“Cool Hand”Clarksville, Tennessee
Featherweight3 rounds17 Jan 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Blanco.
  • Carries 16 points more striking defence than Sanders.
12-8-1
Record
13-5
32
Age
−2 yr30
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+4″71″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Caracas
From
Clarksville, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 13:38 of action⚡ 1 KD Sanders2 sub attemptsEnded 3:38
Maximo Blanco16 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 25BODY44%7 of 7LEGS44%7 of 7
Luke Sanders26 sig landed
HEAD81%21 of 42BODY4%1 of 1LEGS15%4 of 5
16 of 39
Sig.
strikes
26 of 48
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:12
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 2

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

Luke Sanders

Round
1
Clock
3:38
Method
Submission

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.

Maximo Blanco

1.85takedowns / 15 min
1.85 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.71 / 15m
5.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.37 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
30%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Luke Sanders

0.71takedowns / 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.

Maximo Blanco↓ −4.9pp
open 57.5%close 52.6%
Luke Sanders↑ +4.9pp
open 42.5%close 47.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Maximo Blanco opened at 57.5% and closed at 52.6% (−4.9pp), with Luke Sanders 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
Maximo Blanco-160-12257.5%52.6%−4.9pp
Luke Sanders12010242.5%47.4%+4.9pp
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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