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The Clinch

UFC 79: Nemesis

29 DEC 2007 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Welterweight / 5 rounds scheduled Title

Georges St-Pierre vs Matt Hughes

Georges St-Pierre, photograph by Bad intentionz Georges St-Pierre “Rush”

14-2-0 entering this bout

Age 26 · 5′11″180.3 cm

Won

No photograph on file Matt Hughes

15-3-0 entering this bout

Age 34 · 5′9″175.3 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
23/31
R1
2/9
5/9
R2
3/4

Submission Armbar From Side Control Round 2 · 4:54

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.
Georges St-Pierre Enters 9-2-0 against GRAPPLING
Matt Hughes Enters 10-2-0 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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Georges St-Pierre    Matt Hughes

Bout totals

28
Sig. strikes
5
97
Total strikes
10
18
To the head
3
8
To the body
2
2
To the legs
0
4
At distance
0
2
In the clinch
2
22
On the ground
3
3
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
3
Sub. attempts
0
7:01
Control time
0:17

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 Georges St-Pierre 23/31 66/77 16/22 5/5 2/4 4/10 1/1 18/20 1/1 0 3:09
Matt Hughes 2/9 6/13 2/9 0/0 0/0 0/6 0/0 2/3 0/2 0 0:00
R2 Georges St-Pierre 5/9 31/40 2/5 3/4 0/0 0/2 1/2 4/5 2/2 0 3:52
Matt Hughes 3/4 4/6 1/2 2/2 0/0 0/0 2/2 1/2 0/1 0 0:17

Who said so

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Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight Yes UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight Yes UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Steve Mazzagatti UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Steve Mazzagatti UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Armbar From Side Control UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Armbar From Side Control UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 2 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 2 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 4:54 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 4:54 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Submission UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Submission UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Welterweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Welterweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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