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Events · UFC 81: Breaking Point · Rob Emerson vs Keita Nakamura
From the tape · 2 Feb 2008

Rob Emerson vs Keita Nakamura

UFC 81: Breaking Point · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rob Emerson beat Keita Nakamura

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Steve Mazzagatti

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.

RE
Red corner RobEmerson“The Saint”MMA Lab · Newport Beach, California
VSOn the tape
KN
Blue corner KeitaNakamura“K-Taro”United Gym Tokyo · Katsushika, Tokyo
Lightweight3 rounds2 Feb 2008
18-12
Record
34-10-2
26
Age
−3 yr23
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
70″
Reach
+3″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
1
UFC bouts
+12
MMA Lab
Gym
United Gym Tokyo
Newport Beach, California
From
Katsushika, Tokyo
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Nakamura
Rob Emerson29 sig landed
HEAD48%14 of 53BODY21%6 of 7LEGS31%9 of 9
Keita Nakamura12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 60BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
29 of 69
Sig.
strikes
12 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:28
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Rob Emerson26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 57BODY4%1 of 1LEGS46%12 of 12
Keita Nakamura13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 61BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 70
Sig.
strikes
13 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:13
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rob Emerson26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 64BODY8%2 of 2LEGS27%7 of 7
Keita Nakamura32 sig landed
HEAD91%29 of 65BODY9%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 73
Sig.
strikes
32 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
0:47
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 6Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Steve Mazzagatti
Official totals — Rob Emerson first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Al Lefkowitz30–27
Jeff Collins1.8 avg spread · 42% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 3 scored, Rob Emerson first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nakamura · 83%29-28 Emerson · 17%

6 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Rob Emerson

2.02takedowns / 15 min
2.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.65 / 15m
3.88 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.44 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
48%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Keita Nakamura

1.65takedowns / 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.

Rob Emerson↓ −4.7pp
open 31.1%close 26.4%
Keita Nakamura↑ +4.7pp
open 68.9%close 73.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rob Emerson opened at 31.1% and closed at 26.4% (−4.7pp), with Keita Nakamura moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. 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
Rob Emerson21026531.1%26.4%−4.7pp
Keita Nakamura-250-32568.9%73.6%+4.7pp
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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