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History · 2016 · The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Finale · Brandon Moreno vs Ryan Benoit
From the tape · 3 Dec 2016

Brandon Moreno vs Ryan Benoit

The Ultimate Fighter: Tournament of Champions Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Brandon Moreno beat Ryan Benoit

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 BrandonMoreno“The Assassin Baby”Fortis MMA · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
RB
Blue corner RyanBenoit“Baby Face”Janjira Muay Thai · Dallas, Texas
Flyweight3 rounds3 Dec 2016
23-10-2
Record
10-8
−5 yr22
Age
27
+2″5' 7"
Height
5' 5"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Fortis MMA
Gym
Janjira Muay Thai
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Dallas, Texas
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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
Brandon Moreno17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 42BODY12%2 of 5LEGS47%8 of 8
Ryan Benoit7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 26BODY14%1 of 4LEGS0%0 of 2
17 of 55
Sig.
strikes
7 of 32
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:39
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 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⚡ 1 KD Benoit
Brandon Moreno14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 38BODY7%1 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
Ryan Benoit6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 18BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
14 of 41
Sig.
strikes
6 of 20
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:07
Control
0:16
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
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
Brandon Moreno23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 40BODY13%3 of 3LEGS17%4 of 4
Ryan Benoit10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 36BODY10%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 47
Sig.
strikes
10 of 41
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:05
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 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

Decision - Split

Referee · Mark Smith
Official totals — Brandon Moreno first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Mullen2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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.

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.

Brandon Moreno

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.28 / 15m
3.49 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.27 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
22%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Ryan Benoit

0.28takedowns / 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.

Brandon Moreno↑ +3.5pp
open 59.9%close 63.5%
Ryan Benoit↓ −3.5pp
open 40.1%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brandon Moreno opened at 59.9% and closed at 63.5% (+3.5pp), with Ryan Benoit 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
Brandon Moreno-175-19059.9%63.5%+3.5pp
Ryan Benoit13516540.1%36.5%−3.5pp
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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