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Ben Saunders

UFC 9-10Pro 22-13-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Ben Saunders’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 9-10 first fight 2007-12-08 · last fight 2019-12-14
Pro record22-13-2
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionWelterweight
Age43
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox all-rounder campaigning at Welterweight. 9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameKilla B
NationalityUnited States
Hometown (per Sherdog)Orlando, Florida
CampAmerican Top Team Orlando
Height6' 2"
Reach77"
StanceOrthodox
Age43
Date of birthApr 13, 1983
Weight170 lbs.
Pro record22-13-2
UFC recordUFC 9-10 first fight 2007-12-08 · last fight 2019-12-14
Finish split9 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 3 submission, 3 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Ben Saunders’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.23
Striking accuracy50%
Strikes absorbed / min3.58
Striking defence51%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.20
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence66%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Welterweight.
Striking69
Defence46
Grappling / TD40
Cardio17
Chin4
Fight IQ35

Strike zones

Strike zones

Ben Saunders

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD50.8%ACC 38%BODY38.7%ACC 70%LEGS10.5%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Body puncher 38.7% of his landed strikes go to the body — +17.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
50.8% acc 38%−11.7 vs field
BODY
38.7% acc 70%+17.7 vs field
LEGS
10.5% acc 85%−6.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 59%CLINCH 33%GROUND 8%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

19 UFC fights · 486 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ben Saunders

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.20takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.20 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.90 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS1
0.20 / 15m−1.90 vs field
ATTEMPTS3
0.50 / 15m−4.56 vs field
ACCURACY48
40%−6pp vs field
SUB ATT70
1.30 / 15m−0.03 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Welterweight

Recent form

Pro record: 22-13-2. In the UFC: 9-10. Ben Saunders’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

Post-fight bonuses

3 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2018-06-01POTNPerformance of the NightJake EllenbergerUFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes
2018-02-24FOTNFight of the NightAlan JoubanUFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens
2014-08-23POTNPerformance of the NightChris Heatherly—

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 19 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2019-12-14LMatt BrownKO/TKOR2UFC 245: Usman vs. Covington
2019-04-27LTakashi SatoKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Jacare vs. Hermansson
2018-11-03LLyman GoodKO/TKOR1UFC 230: Cormier vs. Lewis
2018-09-22LSergio MoraesSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Marreta vs. Anders
2018-06-01WJake EllenbergerKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Rivera vs. Moraes
2018-02-24LAlan JoubanKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Stephens
2017-05-28LPeter SobottaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira
2017-01-15WCourt McGeeDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Penn
2016-01-17LPatrick CoteKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs Cruz
2015-07-25WKenny RobertsonDecision (split)R3UFC on FOX: Dillashaw vs. Barao II
2014-12-13WJoe RiggsSubmissionR1UFC on FOX: Dos Santos vs Miocic
2014-08-23WChris HeatherlySubmissionR1—
2010-08-07LDennis HallmanDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 117: Silva vs Sonnen
2010-03-27LJon FitchDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 111: St-Pierre vs Hardy
2009-11-21WMarcus DavisKO/TKOR1UFC 106: Ortiz vs Griffin 2
2009-06-13LMike SwickKO/TKOR2UFC 99: The Comeback
2008-12-10WBrandon WolffKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night - Fight for the Troops
2008-08-09WRyan ThomasSubmissionR2UFC 87: Seek And Destroy
2007-12-08WDan BarreraDecision (unanimous)R3The Ultimate Fighter: Team Hughes vs. Team Serra Finale

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

On the map

The 15 cities Ben Saunders has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2007–2019Phoenix, Arizona, USA — 2 bouts, 2014–2017Boston, Massachusetts, USA — 1 bout, 2016Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2015Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany — 1 bout, 2009Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA — 1 bout, 2008Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA — 1 bout, 2008New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2018Newark, New Jersey, USA — 1 bout, 2010Oakland, California, USA — 1 bout, 2010Orlando, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2018Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil — 1 bout, 2018Stockholm, Sweden — 1 bout, 2017Sunrise, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2019Utica, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2018Hometown: Orlando, Florida

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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