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The Clinch

UFC 43: Meltdown

06 JUN 2003 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Light Heavyweight / 5 rounds scheduled Title

Randy Couture vs Chuck Liddell

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

7-3-0 entering this bout

Age 39 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Won

Chuck Liddell, photograph by IthakaDarinPappas Chuck Liddell “The Iceman”

9-1-0 entering this bout

Age 33 · 6′2″188 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
9/16
R1
10/26
19/29
R2
8/19
18/42
R3
4/14

Technical Knockout Punches to Head On Ground Round 3 · 2:39

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 3-0-0 against STRIKING
Chuck Liddell Enters 4-1-0 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    Chuck Liddell

Bout totals

46
Sig. strikes
22
56
Total strikes
35
39
To the head
11
3
To the body
0
4
To the legs
11
27
At distance
12
11
In the clinch
10
8
On the ground
0
4
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
1
Sub. attempts
0
3:19
Control time
2:04

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 9/16 13/20 7/14 0/0 2/2 5/11 3/3 1/2 2/3 0 1:33
Chuck Liddell 10/26 16/32 5/21 0/0 5/5 5/18 5/8 0/0 0/0 0 0:22
R2 Randy Couture 19/29 21/31 17/26 1/2 1/1 14/23 4/5 1/1 1/1 0 1:14
Chuck Liddell 8/19 15/26 3/14 0/0 5/5 4/14 4/5 0/0 0/0 0 1:12
R3 Randy Couture 18/42 22/48 15/39 2/2 1/1 8/25 4/5 6/12 1/1 0 0:32
Chuck Liddell 4/14 4/14 3/12 0/0 1/2 3/12 1/2 0/0 0/1 0 0:30

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 Punches to Head On Ground UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Punches to Head On Ground 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 2:39 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 2:39 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method KO/TKO UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method KO/TKO 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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