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The Clinch

UFC 49: Unfinished Business

21 AUG 2004 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Light Heavyweight / 5 rounds scheduled Title

Randy Couture vs Vitor Belfort

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

9-4-0 entering this bout

Age 41 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Won

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

11-3-0 entering this bout

Age 27 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
14/25
R1
2/3
16/19
R2
1/2
20/27
R3
0/1

Technical Knockout Facial Cut Round 3 · 5:00

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 Enters 4-1-0 against STRIKING
Vitor Belfort Enters 3-2-0 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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Randy Couture    Vitor Belfort

Bout totals

50
Sig. strikes
3
131
Total strikes
10
40
To the head
1
3
To the body
2
7
To the legs
0
1
At distance
0
16
In the clinch
2
33
On the ground
1
2
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
2
14:06
Control time
0:01

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 14/25 29/40 7/13 2/4 5/8 0/2 10/18 4/5 1/2 0 4:34
Vitor Belfort 2/3 3/4 0/1 2/2 0/0 0/1 2/2 0/0 0/0 0 0:01
R2 Randy Couture 16/19 53/57 13/16 1/1 2/2 1/2 6/7 9/10 1/2 0 4:46
Vitor Belfort 1/2 5/6 1/2 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 1/1 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Randy Couture 20/27 49/57 20/27 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0 20/27 0/0 0 4:46
Vitor Belfort 0/1 2/3 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/1 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00

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 John McCarthy UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee John McCarthy UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Facial Cut UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Facial Cut 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 TKO - Doctor's Stoppage UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method TKO - Doctor's Stoppage UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 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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