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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Ben Nguyen vs Geane Herrera
From the tape · 26 Nov 2016

Ben Nguyen vs Geane Herrera

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Ben Nguyen beat Geane Herrera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain 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.

BN
Red corner BenNguyen“Ten”Integrated MMA · Sioux Falls, South Dakota
VSOn the tape
GH
Blue corner GeaneHerrera“La Pulga”Banks MMA · Tampa, Florida
Flyweight3 rounds26 Nov 2016
16-8
Record
9-3
28
Age
−2 yr26
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
65″
Reach
+1″66″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Integrated MMA
Gym
Banks MMA
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
From
Tampa, 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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Nguyen
Ben Nguyen39 sig landed
HEAD64%25 of 62BODY21%8 of 11LEGS15%6 of 6
Geane Herrera7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 34BODY43%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 79
Sig.
strikes
7 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
0:32
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 30Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nguyen firstBen Cartlidge10–9Barry Foley10–9Christopher Shen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ben Nguyen36 sig landed
HEAD78%28 of 72BODY14%5 of 9LEGS8%3 of 4
Geane Herrera8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 33BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 85
Sig.
strikes
8 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 33Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nguyen firstBen Cartlidge10–9Barry Foley10–9Christopher Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ben Nguyen30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 78BODY17%5 of 9LEGS10%3 of 4
Geane Herrera7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 31BODY0%0 of 1LEGS29%2 of 4
30 of 91
Sig.
strikes
7 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nguyen firstBen Cartlidge10–8Barry Foley10–9Christopher Shen10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Ben NguyenGeane Herrera
Official totals — Ben Nguyen first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–26
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide30–27
Christopher Shen30–27

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 — 14 scored, Ben Nguyen first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Nguyen · 81%30-26 Nguyen · 19%

16 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 Nguyen

0.25takedowns / 15 min
0.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
0.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.24 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
37%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Geane Herrera

0.83takedowns / 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.

Ben Nguyen↑ +2.2pp
open 53.8%close 56.0%
Geane Herrera↓ −2.2pp
open 46.2%close 44.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ben Nguyen opened at 53.8% and closed at 56.0% (+2.2pp), with Geane Herrera 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 Nguyen-140-13953.8%56.0%+2.2pp
Geane Herrera10011946.2%44.0%−2.2pp
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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