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The Clinch

UFC 105: Couture vs Vera

14 NOV 2009 / Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Main event / Light Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Randy Couture vs Brandon Vera

Randy Couture, photograph by Gage Skidmore Randy Couture “The Natural”

13-8-0 entering this bout

Age 46 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Won

Brandon Vera, photograph by Jess Escaros Jr. for the Philippine News Agency Brandon Vera “The Truth”

9-3-0 entering this bout

Age 32 · 6′3″190.5 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
10/12
R1
3/11
7/17
R2
13/23
22/44
R3
11/17

Decision (Unanimous) Round 3 · 5:00 Referee Marc Goddard

The cards

Judge Randy Couture Brandon Vera
Sal D'amato 29 28
Andy Roberts 29 28
Glenn Trowbridge 29 28

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

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.
Randy Couture First time facing HYBRID
Brandon Vera Enters 3-1-0 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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Randy Couture    Brandon Vera

Bout totals

39
Sig. strikes
27
59
Total strikes
44
19
To the head
10
9
To the body
10
11
To the legs
7
6
At distance
15
33
In the clinch
10
0
On the ground
2
1
Takedowns
1
0
Knockdowns
1
0
Sub. attempts
0
8:57
Control time
2:24

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 Randy Couture 10/12 13/15 2/4 1/1 7/7 0/0 10/12 0/0 1/3 0 4:21
Brandon Vera 3/11 7/15 1/8 0/1 2/2 1/6 2/5 0/0 0/0 0 0:06
R2 Randy Couture 7/17 14/25 3/13 2/2 2/2 1/8 6/9 0/0 0/4 0 2:16
Brandon Vera 13/23 25/36 3/11 6/6 4/6 6/12 5/7 2/4 0/0 1 1:01
R3 Randy Couture 22/44 32/57 14/36 6/6 2/2 5/17 17/27 0/0 0/3 0 2:20
Brandon Vera 11/17 12/18 6/12 4/4 1/1 8/12 3/4 0/1 1/2 0 1:17

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Marc Goddard UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Sal D'amato 28 - 29. Andy Roberts 28 - 29. Glenn Trowbridge 28 - 29. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Sal D'amato 28 - 29. Andy Roberts 28 - 29. Glenn Trowbridge 28 - 29. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 3 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Light Heavyweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Light Heavyweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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