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The Clinch

UFC 51: Super Saturday

05 FEB 2005 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Light Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Tito Ortiz vs Vitor Belfort

No photograph on file Tito Ortiz “The People's Champ”

10-4-0 entering this bout

Age 30 · 6′3″190.5 cm

Won

Vitor Belfort, photograph by https://www.flickr.com/photos/tiagoluiz/ Vitor Belfort “The Phenom”

11-4-0 entering this bout

Age 27 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
16/20
R1
9/20
4/8
R2
10/17
7/19
R3
0/1

Decision (Split) Round 3 · 5:00

The cards

Judge Tito Ortiz Vitor Belfort
Nelson Hamilton 29 28
Cecil Peoples 29 28
Jeff Mullen 28 29

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.
Tito Ortiz Enters 3-1-0 against STRIKING
Vitor Belfort Enters 3-3-0 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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Tito Ortiz    Vitor Belfort

Bout totals

27
Sig. strikes
19
101
Total strikes
44
20
To the head
16
2
To the body
2
5
To the legs
1
1
At distance
1
8
In the clinch
8
18
On the ground
10
4
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
1
9:24
Control time
3:05

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 Tito Ortiz 16/20 32/41 9/12 2/3 5/5 1/3 8/9 7/8 1/4 0 3:29
Vitor Belfort 9/20 14/25 6/17 2/2 1/1 1/5 8/15 0/0 0/0 0 0:13
R2 Tito Ortiz 4/8 29/35 4/7 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/1 4/6 1/3 0 1:27
Vitor Belfort 10/17 23/32 10/17 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 10/17 0/0 0 2:52
R3 Tito Ortiz 7/19 40/54 7/19 0/0 0/0 0/2 0/0 7/17 2/4 0 4:28
Vitor Belfort 0/1 7/8 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/1 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 John McCarthy UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee John McCarthy UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Nelson Hamilton 28 - 29. Cecil Peoples 28 - 29. Jeff Mullen 29 - 28. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Nelson Hamilton 28 - 29. Cecil Peoples 28 - 29. Jeff Mullen 29 - 28. 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 - Split UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Split 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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