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The Clinch

Ricardo Arona vs Kazushi Sakuraba

No photograph on file Ricardo Arona “The Brazilian Tiger”

5-1-0 entering this bout

Age 26 · 5′11″180.3 cm

Won

Kazushi Sakuraba, photograph by ゾーヒョー Kazushi Sakuraba “The Gracie Hunter”

17-7-2 entering this bout

Age 35 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
27/46
R1
9/25
21/30
R2
1/7

Technical Knockout to Corner Stoppage Round 2 · 5:00

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Ricardo Arona Enters 2-0-0 against GRAPPLING
Kazushi Sakuraba Enters 7-1-1 against GRAPPLING

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Ricardo Arona    Kazushi Sakuraba

Bout totals

48
Sig. strikes
10
75
Total strikes
11
44
To the head
3
3
To the body
3
1
To the legs
4
5
At distance
7
6
In the clinch
3
37
On the ground
0
2
Takedowns
1
1
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
0
0:00
Control time
0:00

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Ricardo Arona 27/46 33/52 25/40 2/5 0/1 3/15 5/10 19/21 2/2 1 --
Kazushi Sakuraba 9/25 10/28 3/16 3/6 3/3 6/16 3/8 0/1 1/4 0 --
R2 Ricardo Arona 21/30 42/55 19/28 1/1 1/1 2/7 1/2 18/21 0/0 0 --
Kazushi Sakuraba 1/7 1/7 0/5 0/0 1/2 1/7 0/0 0/0 0/2 0 --

Who said so

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One source, so far Every field below comes from UFCStats relational (Kaggle), at reliability rank 12. Nothing has been corroborated yet, and nothing is in dispute.

Field Value
Is title fight No
Referee Daisuke Noguchi
Result detail to Corner Stoppage
Result end round 2
Result end time seconds 5:00
Result method KO/TKO
Scheduled rounds 3
Weight class Middleweight

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