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Events · UFC: Kim vs Fan · Dan Hooker vs Benoit Saint Denis
Red corner DanHooker“The Hangman”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSSettled
Blue corner Benoit SaintDenis“God of War”
Lightweight Bout3 rounds31 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 9 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 23 UFC bouts deep — 12 more than Denis.
  • Every one of Denis’s 8 UFC wins came inside the distance.
24-14
Record
17-4
35
Age
−5 yr30
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
+1223
UFC bouts
11
9/1464% of wins
Finishes
+36%8/8100% of wins
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Benoit Saint Denis
64.1% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 44%
Vs the market+14.1pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Benoit Saint Denis
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock4:45
Called it We called Benoit Saint Denis at 64.1% and Benoit Saint Denis won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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 action1 sub attempt
Dan Hooker26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 27BODY31%8 of 12LEGS8%2 of 2
Benoit Saint Denis35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 35BODY31%11 of 11LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 41
Sig.
strikes
35 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:22
Control
1:55
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 8Ground 11
Round 24:45 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 4:45
Dan Hooker4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
Benoit Saint Denis62 sig landed
HEAD95%59 of 78BODY5%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 6
Sig.
strikes
62 of 81
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:06
Control
4:19
1
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 56

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

Benoit Saint Denis

Round
2
Clock
4:45
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: Herb Dean.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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