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The Clinch

31 DEC 2008

Bob Sapp vs Akihito Tanaka

No photograph on file Bob Sapp “The Beast”

2-2-0 entering this bout

Age 34 · 6′5″195.6 cm

Won

No photograph on file Akihito Tanaka “Kinniku Mantaro”

0-0-0 entering this bout

Age 25 · height n/a

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
11/18
R1
1/2

Technical Knockout Punches to Head At Distance Round 1 · 5:22

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.
Bob Sapp -- Their opponent has no style on file, so there is nothing to condition on.
Akihito Tanaka First time facing STRIKING

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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Bob Sapp    Akihito Tanaka

Bout totals

11
Sig. strikes
1
16
Total strikes
41
11
To the head
0
0
To the body
1
0
To the legs
0
4
At distance
0
7
In the clinch
0
0
On the ground
1
0
Takedowns
2
0
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 Bob Sapp 11/18 16/23 11/18 0/0 0/0 4/5 7/13 0/0 0/0 0 --
Akihito Tanaka 1/2 41/49 0/1 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 1/1 2/3 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 Punches to Head At Distance
Result end round 1
Result end time seconds 5:22
Result method KO/TKO
Scheduled rounds 2
Weight class Heavyweight