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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Ben Rothwell vs Junior Dos Santos
From the tape · 10 Apr 2016

Ben Rothwell vs Junior Dos Santos

UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs Dos Santos · Zagreb, Croatia
Result

Junior Dos Santos beat Ben Rothwell

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMainReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

BR
Red corner BenRothwellRothwell MMA · Kenosha, Wisconsin
VSOn the tape
JS
Blue corner Junior DosSantos“Cigano”Cacador, Santa Catarina
Heavyweight5 rounds10 Apr 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Rothwell.
39-14
Record
21-9
34
Age
−2 yr32
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
+1″78″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
9
UFC bouts
+514
+11%5/683% of wins
Finishes
8/1173% of wins
Kenosha, Wisconsin
From
Cacador, Santa Catarina
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ben Rothwell19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 37BODY16%3 of 7LEGS21%4 of 4
Junior Dos Santos26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 21BODY62%16 of 16LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 48
Sig.
strikes
26 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ben Rothwell14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 33BODY7%1 of 2LEGS43%6 of 7
Junior Dos Santos29 sig landed
HEAD38%11 of 30BODY62%18 of 19LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 42
Sig.
strikes
29 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Ben Rothwell15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 31BODY7%1 of 1LEGS33%5 of 5
Junior Dos Santos29 sig landed
HEAD28%8 of 21BODY72%21 of 22LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 37
Sig.
strikes
29 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Ben Rothwell18 sig landed
HEAD78%14 of 44BODY6%1 of 1LEGS17%3 of 3
Junior Dos Santos40 sig landed
HEAD52%21 of 36BODY48%19 of 21LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 48
Sig.
strikes
40 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ben Rothwell11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 34BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 2
Junior Dos Santos33 sig landed
HEAD45%15 of 39BODY55%18 of 22LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 37
Sig.
strikes
33 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rothwell firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Howard Hughes9–10

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 · Leon Roberts
Ben RothwellJunior Dos Santos
Official totals — Ben Rothwell first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide45–50
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide45–50
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide45–50

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.

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 dos Santos · 71%49-46 dos Santos · 17%50-44 dos Santos · 7%50-46 dos Santos · 3%48-46 dos Santos · 2%

59 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.

Ben Rothwell

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.60 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Junior Dos Santos

0.30takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Ben Rothwell↑ +5.8pp
open 44.2%close 50.0%
Junior Dos Santos↓ −5.8pp
open 55.8%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ben Rothwell opened at 44.2% and closed at 50.0% (+5.8pp), with Junior Dos Santos 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
Ben Rothwell110-11044.2%50.0%+5.8pp
Junior Dos Santos-150-11055.8%50.0%−5.8pp
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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