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The Clinch

United States of America “The Texas Crazy Horse” 2000-2008 · 46 rounds on file

Heath Herring

14-8-0 W-L-D in this database

No photograph on file
Strike accuracy 592/1,169
Takedown accuracy 20/40
Sig. strikes / round 12.9
Control / round 0:25
Inside the distance 71% 10 of 14 wins
Height
6′4″193 cm
Reach
78″198.1 cm
Leg reach
--
Stance
Orthodox
Age
4802 MAR 1978
Listed weight
250 lb113.4 kg
Well-Rounded Automatically assigned from data across 22 fights - 2.6 takedown attempts and 26% control time per 15 minutes.

Who they have fought

Every completed bout, grouped by the opponent's style.

Grappling 13 7-6-0 vs 1556 avg
Submission Grappler 7 3-4-0
Positional Controller 6 4-2-0
Striking 5 3-2-0 vs 1586 avg
Pressure Striker 4 2-2-0
Distance Striker 1 1-0-0
Hybrid 1 1-0-0 vs 1458 avg
Well-Rounded 1 1-0-0
-- Not classified 3 3-0-0 --

Opponent styles are assigned from their own fight data, not from a training background. They describe how those opponents have fought. Bars scale against 13 bouts, the largest group.

The career, in order

One bar per bout, oldest on the left. Height is the significant strikes landed in that fight.

04 JUN 2000 - beat Willie Peeters · Submission 31 OCT 2000 - beat Tom Erikson · Submission 09 DEC 2000 - beat Enson Inoue · Technical Knockout 25 MAR 2001 - beat Denis Sobolev · Submission 27 MAY 2001 - lost to Vitor Belfort · Decision (Unanimous) 29 JUL 2001 - beat Mark Kerr · Technical Knockout 03 NOV 2001 - lost to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira · Decision (Unanimous) 24 FEB 2002 - beat Igor Vovchanchyn · Decision (Unanimous) 29 SEP 2002 - beat Iouri Kotchkine · Technical Knockout 24 NOV 2002 - lost to Fedor Emelianenko · Technical Knockout 08 JUN 2003 - lost to Mirko Filipovic · Technical Knockout 09 NOV 2003 - beat Yoshihisa Yamamoto · Submission 31 DEC 2003 - beat Paulo Cesar Silva · Submission 01 FEB 2004 - beat Gan McGee · Decision (Split) 25 APR 2004 - beat Yoshiki Takahashi · Technical Knockout 20 JUN 2004 - lost to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira · Submission 31 OCT 2004 - beat Hirotaka Yokoi · Technical Knockout 25 JAN 2007 - lost to Jake O'Brien · Decision (Unanimous) 07 APR 2007 - beat Brad Imes · Decision (Unanimous) 07 JUL 2007 - lost to Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira · Decision (Unanimous) 01 MAR 2008 - beat Cheick Kongo · Decision (Split) 09 AUG 2008 - lost to Brock Lesnar · Decision (Unanimous)

Won Lost Draw / no contest

What they do with a round

Summed over 46 rounds across 22 of 22 bouts - the ones the corpus has per-round observations for.

Per round

Sig. strikes landed 12.9
Sig. strikes absorbed 9.6
Takedowns landed 0.4
Knockdowns 0.1
Sub. attempts 0.3
Control time 0:25 of each 5:00 round

Accuracy

Sig. strikes 51% 592/1,169
Takedowns 50% 20/40
Opponents’ accuracy 45% 443/982

Where the strikes land

Head 52% 307
Body 27% 162
Leg 21% 123

And from where

At distance 38% 227
In the clinch 11% 66
On the ground 51% 299

How the bouts ended

KO / TKO 5 won Technical Knockout · 5-2
Submission 5 won Submission · 5-1
Decision 4 won Decision (Unanimous) · 2-5 Decision (Split) · 2-0

Every bout

Most recent first. Struck and absorbed are significant strikes.

Date Opponent Result Method End Struck Absorbed Event
09 AUG 2008 Brock Lesnar Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 9 45 UFC 87: Seek And Destroy
01 MAR 2008 Cheick Kongo Won Decision (Split) R3 5:00 57 45 UFC 82: Pride of a Champion
07 JUL 2007 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 31 55 UFC 73: Stacked
07 APR 2007 Brad Imes Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 64 19 UFC 69: Shootout
25 JAN 2007 Jake O'Brien Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 11 13 UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon
31 OCT 2004 Hirotaka Yokoi Won Technical Knockout R1 1:55 26 2 PRIDE 28: High Octane
20 JUN 2004 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Lost Submission R2 0:30 26 14 PRIDE Critical Countdown 2004
25 APR 2004 Yoshiki Takahashi Won Technical Knockout R1 4:53 37 11 PRIDE Total Elimination 2004
01 FEB 2004 Gan McGee Won Decision (Split) R3 5:00 64 55 PRIDE 27: Inferno
31 DEC 2003 Paulo Cesar Silva Won Submission R3 0:35 44 12 PRIDE Shockwave 2003
09 NOV 2003 Yoshihisa Yamamoto Won Submission R3 2:29 53 19 PRIDE Final Conflict 2003
08 JUN 2003 Mirko Filipovic Lost Technical Knockout R1 3:17 4 18 PRIDE 26: Bad to the Bone
24 NOV 2002 Fedor Emelianenko Lost Technical Knockout R1 10:00 12 41 PRIDE 23: Championship Chaos 2
29 SEP 2002 Iouri Kotchkine Won Technical Knockout R1 7:31 37 5 PRIDE 22: Beasts from the East 2
24 FEB 2002 Igor Vovchanchyn Won Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 24 12 PRIDE 19: Bad Blood
03 NOV 2001 Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 21 53 PRIDE 17: Championship Chaos
29 JUL 2001 Mark Kerr Won Technical Knockout R2 4:56 9 5 PRIDE 15: Raging Rumble
27 MAY 2001 Vitor Belfort Lost Decision (Unanimous) R3 5:00 33 8 PRIDE 14: Clash of the Titans
25 MAR 2001 Denis Sobolev Won Submission R1 0:22 2 0 PRIDE 13: Collision Course
09 DEC 2000 Enson Inoue Won Technical Knockout R1 4:52 19 4 PRIDE 12: Cold Fury
31 OCT 2000 Tom Erikson Won Submission R1 6:17 5 6 PRIDE 11: Battle of the Rising Sun
04 JUN 2000 Willie Peeters Won Submission R1 0:48 4 1 PRIDE 9: New Blood