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The Clinch

PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Finals

01 MAY 2000

Bout 5 of 9 / Open Weight / 3 rounds scheduled

Kazushi Sakuraba vs Royce Gracie

Kazushi Sakuraba, photograph by ゾーヒョー Kazushi Sakuraba “The Gracie Hunter”

8-0-2 entering this bout

Age 30 · 6′0″182.9 cm

Won

No photograph on file Royce Gracie

12-0-1 entering this bout

Age 33 · 6′1″185.4 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
3/5
R1
19/22
10/12
R2
8/17
14/31
R3
14/51
6/22
R4
12/43
8/16
R5
1/3
20/61
R6
6/29

Technical Knockout to Corner Stoppage Round 6 · 15:00

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.
Kazushi Sakuraba Enters 1-0-1 against GRAPPLING
Royce Gracie Enters 5-0-1 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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Kazushi Sakuraba    Royce Gracie

Bout totals

61
Sig. strikes
60
78
Total strikes
480
22
To the head
18
15
To the body
16
24
To the legs
26
24
At distance
31
18
In the clinch
26
19
On the ground
3
5
Takedowns
0
1
Knockdowns
0
2
Sub. attempts
1
0:00
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 Kazushi Sakuraba 3/5 5/7 2/4 0/0 1/1 0/1 0/0 3/4 1/1 0 --
Royce Gracie 19/22 184/190 0/3 4/4 15/15 3/6 14/14 2/2 0/5 0 --
R2 Kazushi Sakuraba 10/12 15/17 1/3 8/8 1/1 0/1 10/11 0/0 0/0 0 --
Royce Gracie 8/17 90/113 1/9 7/8 0/0 0/2 8/15 0/0 0/0 0 --
R3 Kazushi Sakuraba 14/31 18/37 3/13 3/4 8/14 7/18 6/10 1/3 0/1 0 --
Royce Gracie 14/51 52/104 7/29 2/3 5/19 11/44 3/7 0/0 0/1 0 --
R4 Kazushi Sakuraba 6/22 7/24 2/16 3/5 1/1 3/15 2/5 1/2 2/2 0 --
Royce Gracie 12/43 47/94 6/29 1/4 5/10 12/41 0/2 0/0 0/0 0 --
R5 Kazushi Sakuraba 8/16 12/23 7/14 1/1 0/1 0/1 0/0 8/15 1/1 0 --
Royce Gracie 1/3 73/100 0/2 1/1 0/0 0/2 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 --
R6 Kazushi Sakuraba 20/61 21/64 7/43 0/1 13/17 14/41 0/0 6/20 1/1 1 --
Royce Gracie 6/29 34/68 4/21 1/5 1/3 5/27 0/1 1/1 0/1 0 --

Who said so

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Field Value
Is title fight No
Referee Yuji Shimada
Result detail to Corner Stoppage
Result end round 6
Result end time seconds 15:00
Result method KO/TKO
Weight class Open Weight

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