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History · 1999 · UFC 22: Only One Can be Champion · Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz
From the tape · 24 Sep 1999

Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz

UFC 22: Only One Can be Champion · Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
Result

Frank Shamrock beat Tito Ortiz

Method
KO/TKO
Round
4 of 5
Clock
4:42
Light Heavyweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · 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
TO
Blue corner TitoOrtiz“The People's Champ”Team Punishment · Huntington Beach, California
Light Heavyweight Title5 rounds24 Sep 1999
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Shamrock’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Every one of Ortiz’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
23-10-2
Record
19-12-1
26
Age
−2 yr24
5' 10"
Height
+5″6' 3"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
4
4/4100% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
The Alliance
Gym
Team Punishment
Santa Monica, California
From
Huntington Beach, California
Vitals, record, nickname and camp come from the public UFC fighter register and are current, not a snapshot of fight night. UFC bouts, finish rate and every storyline line are counted off the official UFC fight record. A tick marks the side holding the raw edge in that row — longer reach, taller, younger, more bouts, a higher finish rate. It is a fact about the tape, not a prediction, and rows with no clean comparison (record, stance, gym, hometown) carry no tick at all. Any row we cannot fill on both sides is left out rather than half-drawn. Streaks, bout counts and finish rates are as they stood going into this fight — this bout and everything after it is excluded from the count.

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

4 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Frank Shamrock3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY67%2 of 3LEGS33%1 of 2
Tito Ortiz8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 23BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
3 of 9
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:04
Control
4:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 6
Round 25:00 of action
Frank Shamrock3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY67%2 of 2LEGS33%1 of 1
Tito Ortiz4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 16BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
4 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Round 35:00 of action
Frank Shamrock8 sig landed
HEAD12%1 of 5BODY25%2 of 3LEGS62%5 of 5
Tito Ortiz4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 9BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
4:15
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 3
Round 44:42 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:42
Frank Shamrock17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 20BODY12%2 of 3LEGS35%6 of 8
Tito Ortiz4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
17 of 31
Sig.
strikes
4 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:09
Control
2:51
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4

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
4
Clock
4:42
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

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Frank Shamrock

0.35takedowns / 15 min
0.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.47 / 15m
0.70 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.06 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
35%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Tito Ortiz

2.47takedowns / 15 min

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. Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Frank Shamrock vs Tito Ortiz.

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