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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Court McGee vs Ben Saunders
From the tape · 15 Jan 2017

Court McGee vs Ben Saunders

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn · Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Result

Ben Saunders beat Court McGee

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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 CourtMcGee“The Crusher”Factory X · Layton, Utah
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds15 Jan 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Saunders.
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than McGee.
23-14
Record
22-13-2
−1 yr32
Age
33
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
11
2/729% of wins
Finishes
+43%5/771% of wins
Factory X
Gym
American Top Team Orlando
Layton, Utah
From
Orlando, 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
Court McGee19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 36BODY11%2 of 9LEGS63%12 of 15
Ben Saunders22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 32BODY59%13 of 18LEGS5%1 of 2
19 of 60
Sig.
strikes
22 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · McGee firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Flores9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Court McGee16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 49BODY31%5 of 12LEGS25%4 of 5
Ben Saunders17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 44BODY29%5 of 11LEGS6%1 of 2
16 of 66
Sig.
strikes
17 of 57
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:52
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · McGee firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Flores9–10Marcos Rosales9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Court McGee19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 36BODY5%1 of 4LEGS26%5 of 6
Ben Saunders10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 21BODY70%7 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 46
Sig.
strikes
10 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McGee firstDerek Cleary10–9Chris Flores10–9Marcos Rosales10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Court McGeeBen Saunders
Official totals — Court McGee first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Chris Flores1.9 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide28–29

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 — 17 scored, Court McGee first · unofficial

Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
John Pollock Fight Network28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AForum.com.br28–29
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Marc Raimondi MMAFighting.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
MM AMania.com29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 McGee · 61%29-28 Saunders · 28%30-27 McGee · 3%

93 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.

Court McGee

1.78takedowns / 15 min
1.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.20 / 15m
7.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.50 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
40%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Court McGee↑ +2.8pp
open 51.9%close 54.7%
Ben Saunders↓ −2.8pp
open 48.1%close 45.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Court McGee opened at 51.9% and closed at 54.7% (+2.8pp), with Ben Saunders 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
Court McGee-130-13251.9%54.7%+2.8pp
Ben Saunders-11011248.1%45.3%−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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