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History · 1999 · UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title · Bas Rutten vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
From the tape · 8 Jan 1999

Bas Rutten vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Bas Rutten beat Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 1
Clock
2:15
HeavyweightMainReferee · 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.

BR
Red corner BasRutten“El Guapo”Eindhoven
VSOn the tape
TK
Blue corner TsuyoshiKohsaka“TK”
Heavyweight1 rounds8 Jan 1999
The story going in
  • Lands 3.7 more significant strikes a minute than Kohsaka.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Rutten.
28-4-1
Record
27-19-2
33
Age
−5 yr28
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Bas Rutten14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 24BODY14%2 of 2LEGS36%5 of 5
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 30BODY18%3 of 3LEGS12%2 of 2
14 of 31
Sig.
strikes
17 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 15
Round 22:15 of action⚡ 1 KD RuttenEnded 2:15
Bas Rutten17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 26BODY6%1 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
Tsuyoshi Kohsaka6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 8BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
17 of 30
Sig.
strikes
6 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 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

Bas Rutten

Round
2
Clock
2:15
Method
KO/TKO

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

Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

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

1.32takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.32 landed per 15 minutes — −1.07 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS45
1.32 / 15m−1.07 vs field
ATTEMPTS75
6.60 / 15m+1.58 vs field
ACCURACY9
20%−31pp vs field
SUB ATT26
0.40 / 15m−1.25 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 in Heavyweight

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.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Bas Rutten vs Tsuyoshi Kohsaka.

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