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The Clinch

UFC 79: Nemesis

29 DEC 2007 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Bout 4 of 10 / Light Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Lyoto Machida vs Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

Lyoto Machida, photograph by Marcos Joel Reis Lyoto Machida “The Dragon”

11-0-0 entering this bout

Age 29 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Won

No photograph on file Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou “The African Assassin”

2-1-0 entering this bout

Age 23 · 5′10″177.8 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
6/17
R1
3/11
15/31
R2
3/13

Submission Arm Triangle From Side Control Round 2 · 4:20

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.
Lyoto Machida Enters 4-0-0 against HYBRID
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou First time facing HYBRID

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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Lyoto Machida    Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

Bout totals

21
Sig. strikes
6
40
Total strikes
19
12
To the head
4
3
To the body
0
6
To the legs
2
10
At distance
4
0
In the clinch
1
11
On the ground
1
0
Takedowns
2
1
Knockdowns
0
5
Sub. attempts
2
5:33
Control time
0:22

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 Lyoto Machida 6/17 16/28 3/13 1/2 2/2 4/6 0/1 2/10 0/0 0 3:07
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou 3/11 14/23 2/10 0/0 1/1 1/7 1/2 1/2 2/4 0 0:22
R2 Lyoto Machida 15/31 24/40 9/23 2/3 4/5 6/11 0/0 9/20 0/0 1 2:26
Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou 3/13 5/15 2/10 0/1 1/2 3/13 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00

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 Mario Yamasaki UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Mario Yamasaki UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Arm Triangle From Side Control UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Arm Triangle 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 4:20 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 4:20 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Submission UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Submission 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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