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History · 2008 · UFC 82: Pride of a Champion · Yushin Okami vs Evan Tanner
From the tape · 1 Mar 2008

Yushin Okami vs Evan Tanner

UFC 82: Pride of a Champion · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Yushin Okami beat Evan Tanner

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Mark Matheny

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.

YO
Red corner YushinOkami“Thunder”EXFIGHT · Fujisawa, Kanagawa
VSOn the tape
ET
Blue corner EvanTannerHard Knocks Kickboxing · Amarillo, Texas
Middleweight3 rounds1 Mar 2008
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 9 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 59 points more takedown defence than Tanner.
  • 15 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Okami.
34-12
Record
32-8
−11 yr26
Age
37
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+1″75″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+915
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+42%9/1182% of wins
EXFIGHT
Gym
Hard Knocks Kickboxing
Fujisawa, Kanagawa
From
Amarillo, Texas
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⚡ 1 KD Okami
Yushin Okami14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 25BODY36%5 of 6LEGS21%3 of 3
Evan Tanner12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 15BODY8%1 of 3LEGS50%6 of 7
14 of 34
Sig.
strikes
12 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:28
Control
1:20
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Round 23:00 of action⚡ 1 KD OkamiEnded 3:00
Yushin Okami12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 20BODY25%3 of 3LEGS8%1 of 1
Evan Tanner7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 11BODY14%1 of 3LEGS71%5 of 5
12 of 24
Sig.
strikes
7 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:08
Control
0:36
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 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

Yushin Okami

Round
2
Clock
3:00
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: Mark Matheny.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Yushin Okami

1.98takedowns / 15 min
1.98 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.55 / 15m
5.08 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.93 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
43%
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Evan Tanner

2.55takedowns / 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.

Yushin Okami↑ +3.4pp
open 62.4%close 65.8%
Evan Tanner↓ −3.4pp
open 37.6%close 34.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Yushin Okami opened at 62.4% and closed at 65.8% (+3.4pp), with Evan Tanner 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
Yushin Okami-180-22062.4%65.8%+3.4pp
Evan Tanner15818037.6%34.2%−3.4pp
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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