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Events · UFC - Ultimate Japan · Frank Shamrock vs Kevin Jackson
From the tape · 21 Dec 1997

Frank Shamrock vs Kevin Jackson

UFC - Ultimate Japan · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Result

Frank Shamrock beat Kevin Jackson

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 1
Clock
0:16
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

FS
Red corner FrankShamrockThe Alliance · Santa Monica, California
VSOn the tape
KJ
Blue corner KevinJacksonPhoenix, Arizona
Light Heavyweight Title1 rounds21 Dec 1997
The story going in
  • Carries 57 points more striking defence than Jackson.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
23-10-2
Record
4-2
−8 yr25
Age
33
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Santa Monica, California
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 10:16 of action1 sub attemptEnded 0:16
Frank Shamrock1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kevin Jackson2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 1
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

Significant strikes, takedowns, control time, knockdowns and submission attempts exactly as UFCStats recorded them for this bout, round by round. Zone percentages are that round’s landed head, body and leg counts over their own total — raw arithmetic, nothing modelled or smoothed. A round in which a fighter landed nothing shades empty and reads zero; it is never filled in from the round before.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Frank Shamrock

Round
1
Clock
0:16
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: John McCarthy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Frank Shamrock

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.35takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.35 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.79 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS5
0.35 / 15m−1.79 vs field
ATTEMPTS4
0.70 / 15m−4.56 vs field
ACCURACY73
50%+6pp vs field
SUB ATT68
1.10 / 15m−0.20 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Career UFC takedown rates exactly as UFCStats publishes them: takedowns landed per 15 minutes, completion rate, submission attempts per 15 minutes, and the share of takedowns tried on them that they stuffed. Attempts per 15 is the one derived figure — landed ÷ completion rate — and it is omitted wherever either input is missing. UFCStats writes 0% where no attempt was recorded at all, so a percentage of exactly zero reads “n/a” here rather than as a measured rate. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

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Frank Shamrock vs Kevin Jackson.

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