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Events · UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2 · Katsuhisa Fujii vs Masutatsu Yano
From the tape · 19 Nov 1999

Katsuhisa Fujii vs Masutatsu Yano

UFC 23: Ultimate Japan 2 · Chiba, Japan
Result

Katsuhisa Fujii beat Masutatsu Yano

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:12
Open WeightMain cardReferee · Mario Yamasaki

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.

KF
Red corner KatsuhisaFujii“Shamoji”Core · Fukuyama, Hiroshima
VSOn the tape
MY
Blue corner MasutatsuYanoRJW Central · Sakurai, Nara
Open Weight3 rounds19 Nov 1999
9-18-1
Record
2-4-1
27
Age
−3 yr24
+3″6' 0"
Height
5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Core
Gym
RJW Central
Fukuyama, Hiroshima
From
Sakurai, Nara
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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
Katsuhisa Fujii12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 14BODY25%3 of 3LEGS25%3 of 3
Masutatsu Yano17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 40BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 3
12 of 20
Sig.
strikes
17 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
2:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 15
Round 23:12 of action⚡ 1 KD FujiiEnded 3:12
Katsuhisa Fujii6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 19BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
Masutatsu Yano1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 3
6 of 21
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 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

Katsuhisa Fujii

Round
2
Clock
3:12
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: Mario Yamasaki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Katsuhisa Fujii

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

2.14takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Submission hunter 2.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes — +0.51 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS64
2.14 / 15m−0.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS83
8.56 / 15m+3.13 vs field
ACCURACY20
25%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT83
2.10 / 15m+0.51 vs field

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.

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 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.

Katsuhisa Fujii vs Masutatsu Yano.

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