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Events · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt · Dan Hooker vs Ross Pearson
From the tape · 10 Jun 2017

Dan Hooker vs Ross Pearson

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Hunt · Auckland, New Zealand
Result

Dan Hooker beat Ross Pearson

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:02
LightweightMain cardReferee · Neil Swailes

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
RP
Blue corner RossPearson“The Real Deal”Central Coast MMA · Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
Lightweight3 rounds10 Jun 2017
The story going in
  • Every one of Hooker’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.1 more significant strikes a minute than Pearson.
  • Has finished 5 of 11 UFC wins.
24-14
Record
20-16
−5 yr27
Age
32
+4″6' 0"
Height
5' 8"
+6″75″
Reach
69″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+1622
+55%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
5/1145% of wins
City Kickboxing
Gym
Central Coast MMA
Auckland
From
Sunderland, Tyne and Wear
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Dan Hooker32 sig landed
HEAD41%13 of 45BODY12%4 of 4LEGS47%15 of 16
Ross Pearson20 sig landed
HEAD40%8 of 29BODY30%6 of 11LEGS30%6 of 7
32 of 65
Sig.
strikes
20 of 47
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 23:02 of action⚡ 1 KD HookerEnded 3:02
Dan Hooker37 sig landed
HEAD73%27 of 63BODY5%2 of 4LEGS22%8 of 9
Ross Pearson18 sig landed
HEAD39%7 of 30BODY39%7 of 7LEGS22%4 of 4
37 of 76
Sig.
strikes
18 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:01
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Dan Hooker

Round
2
Clock
3:02
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Neil Swailes.

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
0.74 / 15m
2.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.11 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
35%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ross Pearson

0.74takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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↑ +9.0pp
open 48.1%close 57.1%
Ross Pearson↓ −9.0pp
open 51.9%close 42.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dan Hooker opened at 48.1% and closed at 57.1% (+9.0pp), with Ross Pearson 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-110-14548.1%57.1%+9.0pp
Ross Pearson-13012551.9%42.9%−9.0pp
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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