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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Brunson · Dan Hooker vs Jason Knight
From the tape · 26 Nov 2016

Dan Hooker vs Jason Knight

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

Jason Knight beat Dan Hooker

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · John Sharp

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.

Red corner DanHooker“The Hangman”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
JK
Blue corner JasonKnight“The Kid”Alan Belcher MMA Club · D'Iberville, Mississippi
Featherweight3 rounds26 Nov 2016
The story going in
  • Every one of Hooker’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Knight.
24-14
Record
20-5
26
Age
−2 yr24
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+4″75″
Reach
71″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+35
UFC bouts
2
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
Alan Belcher MMA Club
Auckland
From
D'Iberville, Mississippi
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 action1 sub attempt
Dan Hooker17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%2 of 6
Jason Knight14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 54BODY21%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 28
Sig.
strikes
14 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:34
Control
1:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Hooker firstEvan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10Christopher Shen10–9
Round 25:00 of action3 sub attempts
Dan Hooker6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 12BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 3
Jason Knight7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 24BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 17
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
3:20
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hooker firstEvan Field9–10Charlie Keech8–10Christopher Shen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dan Hooker24 sig landed
HEAD100%24 of 52BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Jason Knight38 sig landed
HEAD87%33 of 94BODY11%4 of 5LEGS3%1 of 2
24 of 55
Sig.
strikes
38 of 101
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 8
0:08
Control
0:28
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hooker firstEvan Field9–10Charlie Keech9–10Christopher Shen9–10

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 · John Sharp
Dan HookerJason Knight
Official totals — Dan Hooker first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide26–30
Christopher Shen28–29

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 — 12 scored, Dan Hooker first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–29
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br27–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Knight · 48%29-28 Knight · 24%29-28 Hooker · 14%29-27 Knight · 10%30-26 Knight · 5%

21 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.

Dan Hooker

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.31 / 15m
2.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.23 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
31%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Jason Knight

1.31takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Dan Hooker↓ −2.9pp
open 59.2%close 56.2%
Jason Knight↑ +2.9pp
open 40.8%close 43.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dan Hooker opened at 59.2% and closed at 56.2% (−2.9pp), with Jason Knight 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
Dan Hooker-170-14059.2%56.2%−2.9pp
Jason Knight13012040.8%43.8%+2.9pp
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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