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The Clinch

UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya

06 MAR 2021 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Bout 5 of 15 / Light Heavyweight / 3 rounds scheduled

Aleksandar Rakic vs Thiago Santos

No photograph on file Aleksandar Rakic “Rocket”

5-1-0 entering this bout

Age 29 · 6′4″193 cm

Won

No photograph on file Thiago Santos “Marreta”

13-7-0 entering this bout

Age 37 · 6′2″188 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
14/30
R1
15/27
15/35
R2
11/31
7/24
R3
23/39

Decision (Unanimous) Round 3 · 5:00 Referee Herb Dean

The cards

Judge Aleksandar Rakic Thiago Santos
Eric Colon 29 28
Dave Hagen 29 28
Ron McCarthy 30 27

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.
Aleksandar Rakic Enters 1-0-0 against HYBRID
Thiago Santos Enters 4-4-0 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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Aleksandar Rakic    Thiago Santos

Bout totals

36
Sig. strikes
49
50
Total strikes
61
8
To the head
10
13
To the body
23
15
To the legs
16
29
At distance
35
7
In the clinch
14
0
On the ground
0
0
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
0
2:32
Control time
0:00

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 Aleksandar Rakic 14/30 14/30 3/16 3/4 8/10 14/30 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
Thiago Santos 15/27 15/27 1/8 8/11 6/8 15/27 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Aleksandar Rakic 15/35 24/44 3/17 8/9 4/9 8/28 7/7 0/0 0/0 0 1:11
Thiago Santos 11/31 18/38 3/16 6/10 2/5 5/25 6/6 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Aleksandar Rakic 7/24 12/29 2/14 2/3 3/7 7/24 0/0 0/0 0/2 0 1:21
Thiago Santos 23/39 28/44 6/17 9/12 8/10 15/30 8/9 0/0 0/1 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 Herb Dean UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Eric Colon 28 - 29. Dave Hagen 28 - 29. Ron McCarthy 27 - 30. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Eric Colon 28 - 29. Dave Hagen 28 - 29. Ron McCarthy 27 - 30. 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 - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous 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