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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz · Patrick Cote vs Ben Saunders
From the tape · 17 Jan 2016

Patrick Cote vs Ben Saunders

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

Patrick Cote beat Ben Saunders

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
1:14
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Steve Rita

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.

PC
Red corner PatrickCote“The Predator”BTT Canada · Quebec City, Quebec
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds17 Jan 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
23-11
Record
22-13-2
35
Age
−3 yr32
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+818
UFC bouts
10
3/933% of wins
Finishes
+38%5/771% of wins
BTT Canada
Gym
American Top Team Orlando
Quebec City, Quebec
From
Orlando, Florida
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Patrick Cote20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 19BODY10%2 of 6LEGS30%6 of 8
Ben Saunders5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 12BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 33
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:22
Control
1:34
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 1
Round 21:14 of action⚡ 1 KD CoteEnded 1:14
Patrick Cote22 sig landed
HEAD86%19 of 25BODY9%2 of 3LEGS5%1 of 2
Ben Saunders6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 6BODY67%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 30
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:08
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 9Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0

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

Patrick Cote

Round
2
Clock
1:14
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: Steve Rita.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Patrick Cote

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.20 / 15m
3.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.50 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
40%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 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.

Patrick Cote↓ −1.3pp
open 43.3%close 42.0%
Ben Saunders↑ +1.3pp
open 56.7%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Patrick Cote opened at 43.3% and closed at 42.0% (−1.3pp), with Ben Saunders 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
Patrick Cote11513043.3%42.0%−1.3pp
Ben Saunders-155-15056.7%58.0%+1.3pp
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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