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History · 2012 · UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman · Raphael Assuncao vs Issei Tamura
From the tape · 11 Jul 2012

Raphael Assuncao vs Issei Tamura

UFC on FUEL TV: Munoz vs Weidman · San Jose, California, USA
Result

Raphael Assuncao beat Issei Tamura

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:25
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason McCoy

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.

RA
Red corner RaphaelAssuncaoXtreme Couture · Recife, Pernambuco
VSOn the tape
IT
Blue corner IsseiTamuraIJC · Shinagawa, Tokyo
Bantamweight3 rounds11 Jul 2012
The story going in
  • Carries 45 points more takedown defence than Tamura.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Assuncao.
28-10
Record
10-8
29
Age
−1 yr28
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
+3″66″
Reach
63″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Xtreme Couture
Gym
IJC
Recife, Pernambuco
From
Shinagawa, 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Raphael Assuncao26 sig landed
HEAD12%3 of 16BODY38%10 of 12LEGS50%13 of 14
Issei Tamura5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 11BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
26 of 42
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 20:25 of action⚡ 1 KD AssuncaoEnded 0:25
Raphael Assuncao13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 16BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Issei Tamura0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

13 of 18
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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

Raphael Assuncao

Round
2
Clock
0:25
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: Jason McCoy.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Raphael Assuncao

1.65takedowns / 15 min
1.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.92 / 15m
4.23 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.68 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
25%
0.20 / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Raphael Assuncao→ no move
open 64.3%close 63.9%
Issei Tamura→ no move
open 35.7%close 36.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Raphael Assuncao opened at 64.3% and closed at 63.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Raphael Assuncao-200-19064.3%63.9%−0.4pp
Issei Tamura17017035.7%36.1%+0.4pp
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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