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Events · UFC 78: Validation · Akihiro Gono vs Tamdan McCrory
From the tape · 17 Nov 2007

Akihiro Gono vs Tamdan McCrory

UFC 78: Validation · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Akihiro Gono beat Tamdan McCrory

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:19
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

AG
Red corner AkihiroGonoHigashikurume, Tokyo
VSOn the tape
TM
Blue corner TamdanMcCrory“The Barncat”CNY MMA · Binghamton, New York
Welterweight3 rounds17 Nov 2007
The story going in
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than McCrory.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Gono.
35-21-8
Record
14-5
33
Age
−12 yr21
5' 7"
Height
+9″6' 4"
68″
Reach
+8″76″
Switch
Stance
Switch
Higashikurume, Tokyo
From
Binghamton, New York
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Akihiro Gono16 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 9BODY44%7 of 7LEGS44%7 of 8
Tamdan McCrory26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 37BODY31%8 of 11LEGS19%5 of 5
16 of 24
Sig.
strikes
26 of 53
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:14
Control
1:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 14Ground 0
Round 23:19 of action⚡ 1 KD Gono1 sub attemptEnded 3:19
Akihiro Gono11 sig landed
HEAD18%2 of 4BODY18%2 of 6LEGS64%7 of 10
Tamdan McCrory5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 4BODY40%2 of 2LEGS40%2 of 3
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:21
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Akihiro Gono

Round
2
Clock
3:19
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: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Akihiro Gono

1.01takedowns / 15 min
1.01 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.28 / 15m
1.20 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.56 / 15m
84%
ACCURACY
50%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.50 / 15m

Tamdan McCrory

2.28takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Akihiro Gono→ no move
open 65.6%close 65.1%
Tamdan McCrory→ no move
open 34.4%close 34.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Akihiro Gono opened at 65.6% and closed at 65.1% once the vig is taken out — a 0.5pp shift across the whole build-up. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Akihiro Gono-225-21065.6%65.1%−0.5pp
Tamdan McCrory17517534.4%34.9%+0.5pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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