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Events · UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Zhang Tiequan vs Issei Tamura
From the tape · 25 Feb 2012

Zhang Tiequan vs Issei Tamura

UFC 144: Edgar vs Henderson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Issei Tamura beat Zhang Tiequan

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:32
Featherweight

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.

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Red corner ZhangTiequan“The Wolf”
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner IsseiTamuraIJC · Shinagawa, Tokyo
Featherweight3 rounds25 Feb 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 42 points more takedown defence than Tamura.
  • Is 17 points more accurate striking than Tiequan.
15-4
Record
10-8
33
Age
−6 yr27
+3″5' 8"
Height
5' 5"
+6″69″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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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.

No round-by-round tape on file

UFCStats has no per-round record for this bout, so there is no timeline to draw. The result and the finish above are unaffected — this is a hole in the round-by-round tape, and we will not fill it in from the fight totals.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Issei Tamura

Round
2
Clock
0:32
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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Zhang Tiequan

1.95takedowns / 15 min
1.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.92 / 15m
3.36 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.68 / 15m
58%
ACCURACY
25%
3.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Issei Tamura

0.92takedowns / 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.

Zhang Tiequanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 65.0%
Issei Tamuraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Zhang Tiequan 65.0%, Issei Tamura 35.0%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Zhang Tiequan-320-196—65.0%—
Issei Tamura—181—35.0%—
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Issei Tamura, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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