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Events · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Luke Sanders vs Patrick Williams
From the tape · 14 Apr 2018

Luke Sanders vs Patrick Williams

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Gaethje · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Luke Sanders beat Patrick Williams

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Al Guinee

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.

LS
Red corner LukeSanders“Cool Hand”Clarksville, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
PW
Blue corner PatrickWilliams“The Animal”Independent · Homestead, Florida
Bantamweight3 rounds14 Apr 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Sanders.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Williams.
13-5
Record
8-6
−4 yr32
Age
36
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+6″73″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Clarksville, Tennessee
From
Homestead, 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⚡ 1 KD Sanders
Luke Sanders22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 35BODY23%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Patrick Williams15 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 6BODY60%9 of 12LEGS33%5 of 5
22 of 42
Sig.
strikes
15 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:42
Control
0:44
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanders firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Luke Sanders20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 49BODY30%6 of 7LEGS10%2 of 3
Patrick Williams24 sig landed
HEAD29%7 of 28BODY17%4 of 4LEGS54%13 of 13
20 of 59
Sig.
strikes
24 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:31
Control
0:11
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanders firstDerek Cleary9–10Brad Frank10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Luke Sanders17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 37BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Patrick Williams22 sig landed
HEAD32%7 of 22BODY9%2 of 4LEGS59%13 of 15
17 of 39
Sig.
strikes
22 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sanders firstDerek Cleary10–9Brad Frank10–9Chris Lee10–9

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 · Al Guinee
Luke SandersPatrick Williams
Official totals — Luke Sanders first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Brad Frank30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 15 scored, Luke Sanders first · unofficial

John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Josh Stillman Sherdog.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Nolan King MMA- Today.com29–28
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sanders · 68%30-27 Sanders · 23%29-27 Sanders · 4%29-28 Williams · 4%

22 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.

Luke Sanders

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.71 / 15m
2.37 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.61 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
41%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Patrick Williams

2.71takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Luke Sanders↑ +7.1pp
open 71.4%close 78.5%
Patrick Williams↓ −7.1pp
open 28.6%close 21.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Luke Sanders opened at 71.4% and closed at 78.5% (+7.1pp), with Patrick Williams 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
Luke Sanders-310-44071.4%78.5%+7.1pp
Patrick Williams23034728.6%21.5%−7.1pp
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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