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History · 2019 · UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Matt Brown vs Ben Saunders
From the tape · 14 Dec 2019

Matt Brown vs Ben Saunders

UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Matt Brown beat Ben Saunders

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:55
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

MB
Red corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
VSOn the tape
BS
Blue corner BenSaunders“Killa B”American Top Team Orlando · Orlando, Florida
Welterweight3 rounds14 Dec 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 12 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • 24 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Saunders.
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
26-19
Record
22-13-2
38
Age
−2 yr36
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+624
UFC bouts
18
+19%12/1486% of wins
Finishes
6/967% of wins
Immortal Fight Team
Gym
American Top Team Orlando
Xenia, Ohio
From
Orlando, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action4 sub attempts
Matt Brown5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 8BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ben Saunders9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 12BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
9 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:08
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
4
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 7
Round 24:55 of actionEnded 4:55
Matt Brown25 sig landed
HEAD92%23 of 35BODY4%1 of 1LEGS4%1 of 1
Ben Saunders3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 5BODY67%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 37
Sig.
strikes
3 of 9
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:26
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 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

Matt Brown

Round
2
Clock
4:55
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: Keith Peterson.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 15 min
1.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.20 / 15m
3.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.50 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
40%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Ben Saunders

0.20takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Matt Brown↑ +0.6pp
open 74.5%close 75.0%
Ben Saunders↓ −0.6pp
open 25.5%close 25.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Matt Brown opened at 74.5% and closed at 75.0% (+0.6pp), with Ben Saunders 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
Matt Brown-350-35674.5%75.0%+0.6pp
Ben Saunders27528525.5%25.0%−0.6pp
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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