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History · 2016 · UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson · Michael Bisping vs Dan Henderson
From the tape · 8 Oct 2016

Michael Bisping vs Dan Henderson

UFC 204: Bisping vs. Henderson · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Result

Michael Bisping beat Dan Henderson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Middleweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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.

MB
Red corner MichaelBisping“The Count”HB Ultimate · Manchester
VSOn the tape
DH
Blue corner DanHenderson“Hendo”Team Quest · Temecula, California
Middleweight Title5 rounds8 Oct 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 10 of 19 UFC wins.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Bisping.
30-9
Record
32-15
−9 yr37
Age
46
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+926
UFC bouts
17
+8%10/1953% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
HB Ultimate
Gym
Team Quest
Manchester
From
Temecula, California
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⚡ 1 KD Henderson
Michael Bisping16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 51BODY6%1 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
Dan Henderson25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 53BODY4%1 of 1LEGS20%5 of 5
16 of 55
Sig.
strikes
25 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:19
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Bisping firstAndreas Grüner9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Andy Roberts9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Henderson
Michael Bisping25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 60BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 6
Dan Henderson9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 27BODY11%1 of 1LEGS56%5 of 6
25 of 70
Sig.
strikes
9 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:07
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Bisping firstAndreas Grüner9–10Jeff Mullen9–10Andy Roberts10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Michael Bisping33 sig landed
HEAD79%26 of 68BODY6%2 of 2LEGS15%5 of 6
Dan Henderson10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%5 of 5
33 of 76
Sig.
strikes
10 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstAndreas Grüner10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Michael Bisping23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 57BODY4%1 of 3LEGS30%7 of 7
Dan Henderson21 sig landed
HEAD48%10 of 29BODY10%2 of 3LEGS43%9 of 9
23 of 67
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstAndreas Grüner10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Andy Roberts10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Bisping22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 57BODY14%3 of 6LEGS9%2 of 4
Dan Henderson16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 40BODY12%2 of 2LEGS31%5 of 6
22 of 67
Sig.
strikes
16 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:01
Control
0:18
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bisping firstAndreas Grüner10–9Jeff Mullen10–9Andy Roberts10–9

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
Michael BispingDan Henderson
Official totals — Michael Bisping first
JudgeTotal
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide48–47
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide48–47
Andy Roberts1.9 avg spread · 44% wide49–46

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 — 24 scored, Michael Bisping first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com49–46
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com49–46
Will Cooling WrestlingObserver.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–46
Pedro Carneiro MMABrasil.com.br48–47
Phil Murphy ESPN48–47
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com48–47
Youngs FanSided.com48–47
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com48–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Rob Young CombatPress.com48–47
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com48–47
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com47–47
John Pollock Fight Network47–47
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com47–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno47–48
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com47–48
MM AForum.com.br47–48
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com47–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com46–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Bisping · 29%48-47 Henderson · 16%49-46 Bisping · 12%48-46 Henderson · 11%

1,251 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.

Michael Bisping

1.05takedowns / 15 min
1.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.92 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
52%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Dan Henderson

1.52takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Michael Bisping↑ +2.4pp
open 66.4%close 68.8%
Dan Henderson↓ −2.4pp
open 33.6%close 31.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Bisping opened at 66.4% and closed at 68.8% (+2.4pp), with Dan 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
Michael Bisping-240-24766.4%68.8%+2.4pp
Dan Henderson18021033.6%31.2%−2.4pp
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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