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The Clinch

UFC 39: The Warriors Return

27 SEP 2002 / Uncasville, Connecticut, USA

Bout 3 of 8 / Lightweight / 3 rounds scheduled

BJ Penn vs Matt Serra

BJ Penn, photograph by Vanessa M. Forloine, Hickam Air Force Base Public Affairs BJ Penn “The Prodigy”

4-1-0 entering this bout

Age 23 · 5′9″175.3 cm

Won

Matt Serra, photograph by Tom Nguyen Matt Serra “The Terra”

2-1-0 entering this bout

Age 28 · 5′6″167.6 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
14/20
R1
1/11
5/9
R2
5/14
13/23
R3
2/24

Decision (Unanimous) Round 3 · 5:00

The cards

Judge BJ Penn Matt Serra
Cecil Peoples 29 28
Jeff Mullen 29 28
Doug Crosby 29 28

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.
BJ Penn Enters 1-0-0 against GRAPPLING
Matt Serra Enters 1-1-0 against 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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BJ Penn    Matt Serra

Bout totals

32
Sig. strikes
8
71
Total strikes
22
12
To the head
4
10
To the body
2
10
To the legs
2
12
At distance
3
17
In the clinch
5
3
On the ground
0
1
Takedowns
1
0
Knockdowns
0
0
Sub. attempts
1
0:55
Control time
4:19

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 BJ Penn 14/20 31/38 5/11 7/7 2/2 2/7 10/11 2/2 0/0 0 0:10
Matt Serra 1/11 14/24 0/9 1/1 0/1 0/10 1/1 0/0 0/5 0 1:55
R2 BJ Penn 5/9 19/23 2/5 1/2 2/2 2/4 3/5 0/0 1/1 0 0:43
Matt Serra 5/14 6/15 3/12 1/1 1/1 1/5 4/9 0/0 1/5 0 2:20
R3 BJ Penn 13/23 21/31 5/15 2/2 6/6 8/13 4/7 1/3 0/0 0 0:02
Matt Serra 2/24 2/24 1/21 0/0 1/3 2/20 0/4 0/0 0/7 0 0:04

Who said so

Every field on this page is a claim made by a source, kept with the source attached. A lower rank is a source trusted further.

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 Cecil Peoples 28 - 29. Jeff Mullen 28 - 29. Doug Crosby 28 - 29. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Cecil Peoples 28 - 29. Jeff Mullen 28 - 29. Doug Crosby 28 - 29. 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 Lightweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Lightweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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