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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Jason Knight vs Gabriel Benitez
From the tape · 9 Dec 2017

Jason Knight vs Gabriel Benitez

UFC Fight Night: Swanson vs. Ortega · Fresno, California, USA
Result

Gabriel Benitez beat Jason Knight

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

JK
Red corner JasonKnight“The Kid”Alan Belcher MMA Club · D'Iberville, Mississippi
VSOn the tape
GB
Blue corner GabrielBenitez“Moggly”American Kickboxing Academy · Tijuana, Baja California
Featherweight3 rounds9 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Benitez.
  • Lands 2.3 more significant strikes a minute than Knight.
20-5
Record
23-13
−4 yr25
Age
29
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+16
UFC bouts
5
2/450% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Alan Belcher MMA Club
Gym
American Kickboxing Academy
D'Iberville, Mississippi
From
Tijuana, Baja California
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
Jason Knight12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 56BODY25%3 of 4LEGS17%2 of 2
Gabriel Benitez20 sig landed
HEAD70%14 of 45BODY5%1 of 4LEGS25%5 of 6
12 of 62
Sig.
strikes
20 of 55
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:38
Control
0:38
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Knight firstDerek Cleary8–10Marcos Rosales8–10Wade Vierra9–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jason Knight9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 35BODY67%6 of 10LEGS11%1 of 2
Gabriel Benitez24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 52BODY12%3 of 4LEGS12%3 of 3
9 of 47
Sig.
strikes
24 of 59
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:22
Control
0:24
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Knight firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jason Knight15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 69BODY7%1 of 1LEGS7%1 of 2
Gabriel Benitez41 sig landed
HEAD71%29 of 66BODY24%10 of 10LEGS5%2 of 2
15 of 72
Sig.
strikes
41 of 78
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:15
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Knight firstDerek Cleary9–10Marcos Rosales9–10Wade Vierra9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Jason KnightGabriel Benitez
Official totals — Jason Knight first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide26–30
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide26–30
Wade Vierra1.8 avg spread · 33% wide27–29

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 — 16 scored, Jason Knight first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com25–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com25–30
Kendrick Johnson The Ring26–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com26–30
Bloody Elbow.com26–30
Combat Press.com26–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com26–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com26–30
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com26–30
MM ABrasil.com.br26–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno26–30
MM AJunkie.com26–30
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com26–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com26–30
MM AMania.com26–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Benitez · 70%30-25 Benitez · 15%29-27 Benitez · 10%29-26 Benitez · 5%

20 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.

Jason Knight

1.31takedowns / 15 min
1.31 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.22 / 15m
4.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.44 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
50%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Gabriel Benitez

0.22takedowns / 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.

Jason Knight↑ +7.0pp
open 66.9%close 73.9%
Gabriel Benitez↓ −7.0pp
open 33.1%close 26.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jason Knight opened at 66.9% and closed at 73.9% (+7.0pp), with Gabriel Benitez 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
Jason Knight-260-32566.9%73.9%+7.0pp
Gabriel Benitez18027033.1%26.1%−7.0pp
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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