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Events · UFC 88: Breakthrough · Dong Hyun Kim vs Matt Brown
From the tape · 6 Sep 2008

Dong Hyun Kim vs Matt Brown

UFC 88: Breakthrough · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Dong Hyun Kim beat Matt Brown

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

DK
Red corner Dong HyunKim“Stun Gun”Busan Team MAD · Busan, Yeongnam
VSOn the tape
MB
Blue corner MattBrown“The Immortal”Immortal Fight Team · Xenia, Ohio
Welterweight3 rounds6 Sep 2008
The story going in
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Brown.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Kim.
22-4-1
Record
26-19
−1 yr26
Age
27
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+1″76″
Reach
75″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Busan Team MAD
Gym
Immortal Fight Team
Busan, Yeongnam
From
Xenia, Ohio
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 action2 sub attempts
Dong Hyun Kim3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 5BODY56%5 of 6LEGS22%2 of 5
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
9 of 16
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:16
Control
1:20
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 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 action1 sub attempt
Dong Hyun Kim4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown27 sig landed
HEAD33%9 of 21BODY52%14 of 18LEGS15%4 of 5
4 of 10
Sig.
strikes
27 of 44
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:24
Control
2:53
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 8Ground 9
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
Dong Hyun Kim5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Matt Brown12 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY67%8 of 11LEGS33%4 of 5
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
12 of 19
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:26
Control
0:55
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 7Ground 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 · Mario Yamasaki
Official totals — Dong Hyun Kim first
JudgeTotal
Doug Crosby2.3 avg spread · 51% wide29–28
Cecil Peoples2.2 avg spread · 53% wide28–29
Tony Mullinax29–28

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 — 5 scored, Dong Hyun Kim first · unofficial

MM AWeekly.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kim · 52%29-28 Brown · 32%30-27 Brown · 4%

25 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.

Dong Hyun Kim

2.93takedowns / 15 min
2.93 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.68 / 15m
6.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.65 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
46%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Matt Brown

1.68takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Dong Hyun Kim↑ +4.2pp
open 74.3%close 78.6%
Matt Brown↓ −4.2pp
open 25.7%close 21.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dong Hyun Kim opened at 74.3% and closed at 78.6% (+4.2pp), with Matt Brown 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
Dong Hyun Kim-360-44074.3%78.6%+4.2pp
Matt Brown27035025.7%21.4%−4.2pp
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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