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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw · Joseph Benavidez vs Dustin Ortiz
From the tape · 19 Jan 2019

Joseph Benavidez vs Dustin Ortiz

UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Dillashaw · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Result

Joseph Benavidez beat Dustin Ortiz

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Blake Grice

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.

JB
Red corner JosephBenavidezXtreme Couture · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
DO
Blue corner DustinOrtizCombat Sports Academy · Franklin, Tennessee
Flyweight3 rounds19 Jan 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
28-8
Record
19-8
34
Age
−4 yr30
5' 4"
Height
+1″5' 5"
65″
Reach
65″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+316
UFC bouts
13
5/1338% of wins
Finishes
+12%4/850% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
Combat Sports Academy
Sacramento, California
From
Franklin, Tennessee
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 Benavidez
Joseph Benavidez9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 11BODY22%2 of 3LEGS44%4 of 7
Dustin Ortiz16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 18BODY56%9 of 10LEGS0%0 of 1
9 of 21
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:26
Control
0:32
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 7Ground 1
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
Joseph Benavidez11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 13BODY36%4 of 5LEGS27%3 of 4
Dustin Ortiz19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 22BODY58%11 of 13LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
19 of 35
1 of 4
Take-
downs
3 of 7
1:17
Control
1:41
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 10Ground 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
Joseph Benavidez1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Dustin Ortiz14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 14BODY57%8 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 7
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:04
Control
0:49
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 5Ground 6
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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Blake Grice
Official totals — Joseph Benavidez first
JudgeTotal
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Darryl Porter29–28
Tim Corrado29–28

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.

Media cards — 16 scored, Joseph Benavidez first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
Nolan King FloCombat29–28
Mike Straus MMAJA29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Benavidez · 90%30-27 Benavidez · 6%

31 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.

Joseph Benavidez

1.41takedowns / 15 min
1.41 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.01 / 15m
4.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.36 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
36%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Dustin Ortiz

3.01takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Joseph Benavidez↓ −6.8pp
open 74.0%close 67.2%
Dustin Ortiz↑ +6.8pp
open 26.0%close 32.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joseph Benavidez opened at 74.0% and closed at 67.2% (−6.8pp), with Dustin Ortiz 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
Joseph Benavidez-380-23374.0%67.2%−6.8pp
Dustin Ortiz26019326.0%32.8%+6.8pp
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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