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History · 2009 · UFC 100 · Yoshihiro Akiyama vs Alan Belcher
From the tape · 11 Jul 2009

Yoshihiro Akiyama vs Alan Belcher

UFC 100 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Yoshihiro Akiyama beat Alan Belcher

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

YA
Red corner YoshihiroAkiyamaJackson-Wink MMA · Osaka, Osaka
VSOn the tape
AB
Blue corner AlanBelcher“The Talent”Biloxi, Mississippi
Middleweight3 rounds11 Jul 2009
The story going in
  • Carries 37 points more takedown defence than Belcher.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
14-6
Record
18-8
33
Age
−8 yr25
5' 10"
Height
+4″6' 2"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Osaka, Osaka
From
Biloxi, Mississippi
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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Belcher
Yoshihiro Akiyama24 sig landed
HEAD88%21 of 59BODY4%1 of 2LEGS8%2 of 2
Alan Belcher23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 32BODY17%4 of 4LEGS48%11 of 15
24 of 63
Sig.
strikes
23 of 51
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:34
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Akiyama firstAdalaide Byrd10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Yoshihiro Akiyama11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 1
Alan Belcher14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 19BODY7%1 of 3LEGS50%7 of 7
11 of 34
Sig.
strikes
14 of 29
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:40
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Akiyama firstAdalaide Byrd10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Yoshihiro Akiyama20 sig landed
HEAD95%19 of 57BODY5%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Alan Belcher39 sig landed
HEAD64%25 of 57BODY15%6 of 8LEGS21%8 of 11
20 of 59
Sig.
strikes
39 of 76
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 39Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Akiyama firstAdalaide Byrd10–9

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Split Decision

Referee · Mario Yamasaki
Yoshihiro AkiyamaAlan Belcher
Official totals — Yoshihiro Akiyama first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 5 scored, Yoshihiro Akiyama first · unofficial

Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Fight Metric.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Akiyama · 50%29-28 Belcher · 33%30-27 Akiyama · 10%28-27 Akiyama · 3%

30 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.

Yoshihiro Akiyama

2.29takedowns / 15 min
2.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.44 / 15m
3.42 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.69 / 15m
67%
ACCURACY
26%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Alan Belcher

0.44takedowns / 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.

Yoshihiro Akiyama↓ −8.1pp
open 72.8%close 64.7%
Alan Belcher↑ +8.1pp
open 27.2%close 35.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Yoshihiro Akiyama opened at 72.8% and closed at 64.7% (−8.1pp), with Alan Belcher 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
Yoshihiro Akiyama-325-20572.8%64.7%−8.1pp
Alan Belcher25017327.2%35.3%+8.1pp
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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