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History · 2016 · UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Ryan Benoit vs Fredy Serrano
From the tape · 30 Jul 2016

Ryan Benoit vs Fredy Serrano

UFC 201: Lawler vs. Woodley · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Ryan Benoit beat Fredy Serrano

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Blake Grice

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.

RB
Red corner RyanBenoit“Baby Face”Janjira Muay Thai · Dallas, Texas
VSOn the tape
FS
Blue corner FredySerrano“El Profe”MMA Colombia · Bogota, Capital District
Flyweight3 rounds30 Jul 2016
The story going in
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Serrano.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Benoit.
10-8
Record
3-2
−10 yr26
Age
36
+2″5' 5"
Height
5' 3"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Janjira Muay Thai
Gym
MMA Colombia
Dallas, Texas
From
Bogota, Capital District
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Benoit
Ryan Benoit11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 12BODY27%3 of 4LEGS27%3 of 5
Fredy Serrano12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 21BODY50%6 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
11 of 21
Sig.
strikes
12 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:27
Control
1:17
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Ryan Benoit6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 12BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Fredy Serrano8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 15
Sig.
strikes
8 of 20
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:00
Control
2:24
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ryan Benoit14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 14BODY29%4 of 4LEGS29%4 of 4
Fredy Serrano2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 10BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 22
Sig.
strikes
2 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
0:58
Control
1:17
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Blake Grice
Official totals — Ryan Benoit first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
James Corbett29–28
Ken Coffey29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 22 scored, Ryan Benoit first · unofficial

Wrestling Inc.com30–27
Dana Becker FightLine.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer29–28
Chuck Mindenhall MMAFighting.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Rob Young CombatPress.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–30
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com28–29
MM AForum.com.br28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Benoit · 61%29-28 Serrano · 24%30-28 Serrano · 5%30-27 Benoit · 5%30-29 Serrano · 2%

41 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.

Ryan Benoit

0.28takedowns / 15 min
0.28 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.84 / 15m
1.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
11.36 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
25%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Fredy Serrano

2.84takedowns / 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.

Ryan Benoit↑ +2.8pp
open 46.2%close 48.9%
Fredy Serrano↓ −2.8pp
open 53.8%close 51.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ryan Benoit opened at 46.2% and closed at 48.9% (+2.8pp), with Fredy Serrano 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
Ryan Benoit100-10546.2%48.9%+2.8pp
Fredy Serrano-140-11553.8%51.1%−2.8pp
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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