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History · 2000 · UFC 25: Ultimate Japan 3 · Ron Waterman vs Satoshi Honma
From the tape · 14 Apr 2000

Ron Waterman vs Satoshi Honma

UFC 25: Ultimate Japan 3 · Tokyo, Japan
Result

Ron Waterman beat Satoshi Honma

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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.

RW
Red corner RonWaterman“H20”Colorado Stars · Greeley, Colorado
VSOn the tape
SH
Blue corner SatoshiHonmaSado, Niigata
Heavyweight3 rounds14 Apr 2000
16-6-2
Record
4-6-3
34
Age
−3 yr31
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Greeley, Colorado
From
Sado, Niigata
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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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Ron Waterman35 sig landed
HEAD86%30 of 34BODY6%2 of 2LEGS9%3 of 4
Satoshi Honma2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
35 of 40
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 31
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Ron Waterman13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 7BODY46%6 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Satoshi Honma2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 14
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:21
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ron Waterman3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Satoshi Honma2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%2 of 6
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
2 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:02
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, and no totals either.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

This bout went to a decision, but no judge’s card for it has reached our sources yet. Rather than draw an empty grid, the section says so; it fills in on its own when the record catches up.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Ron Waterman

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

4.19takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 4.19 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +1.80 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS86
4.19 / 15m+1.80 vs field
ATTEMPTS73
6.07 / 15m+1.05 vs field
ACCURACY79
69%+18pp vs field
SUB ATT88
2.80 / 15m+1.15 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.

Ron Waterman vs Satoshi Honma.

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