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History · 2017 · The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale · DeAnna Bennett vs Melinda Fabian
From the tape · 1 Dec 2017

DeAnna Bennett vs Melinda Fabian

The Ultimate Fighter: A New World Champion Finale · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain 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.

DB
Red corner DeAnnaBennett“The Argentine Assassin”Webb Fitness & MMA · Orem, Utah
VSOn the tape
MF
Blue corner MelindaFabianBudapest Top Team · Budapest
Women's Flyweight3 rounds1 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Fabian.
  • Carries 100 points more takedown defence than Bennett.
8-3-1
Record
4-4-2
33
Age
−3 yr30
5' 4"
Height
+2″5' 6"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Webb Fitness & MMA
Gym
Budapest Top Team
Orem, Utah
From
Budapest
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Fabian1 sub attempt
DeAnna Bennett20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 20BODY40%8 of 10LEGS10%2 of 2
Melinda Fabian20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 33BODY25%5 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
20 of 32
Sig.
strikes
20 of 41
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:21
Control
0:25
0
Knock-
downs
1
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 6Ground 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
DeAnna Bennett7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 6BODY43%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Melinda Fabian10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 19BODY30%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
10 of 23
0 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:22
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 7Ground 0
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
DeAnna Bennett20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 28BODY25%5 of 8LEGS20%4 of 4
Melinda Fabian19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 46BODY21%4 of 5LEGS11%2 of 2
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
19 of 53
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:08
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 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 - Majority

Referee · John McCarthy
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 127–29
Judge 228–28
Judge 328–28

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.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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.

DeAnna Bennett

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Melinda Fabian

0.00takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's 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.

DeAnna Bennett↑ +6.3pp
open 75.2%close 81.5%
Melinda Fabian↓ −6.3pp
open 24.8%close 18.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

DeAnna Bennett opened at 75.2% and closed at 81.5% (+6.3pp), with Melinda Fabian 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
DeAnna Bennett-400-55075.2%81.5%+6.3pp
Melinda Fabian28042224.8%18.5%−6.3pp
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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