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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann · Takanori Gomi vs Diego Sanchez
From the tape · 2 Mar 2013

Takanori Gomi vs Diego Sanchez

UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann · Saitama, Japan
Result

Diego Sanchez beat Takanori Gomi

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

TG
Red corner TakanoriGomi“The Fireball Kid”Kugayama Rascal · Samukawa, Kanagawa
VSOn the tape
DS
Blue corner DiegoSanchez“Nightmare”Jackson-Wink MMA · Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lightweight3 rounds2 Mar 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 11 more than Gomi.
35-14
Record
31-13
34
Age
−3 yr31
5' 7"
Height
+3″5' 10"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
6
UFC bouts
+1117
+25%2/367% of wins
Finishes
5/1242% of wins
Kugayama Rascal
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Samukawa, Kanagawa
From
Albuquerque, New Mexico
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 action1 sub attempt
Takanori Gomi28 sig landed
HEAD54%15 of 37BODY39%11 of 11LEGS7%2 of 2
Diego Sanchez22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 27BODY45%10 of 10LEGS18%4 of 4
28 of 50
Sig.
strikes
22 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:03
Control
0:20
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 28Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gomi firstBen Cartlidge10–9Barry Foley9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Takanori Gomi31 sig landed
HEAD58%18 of 45BODY35%11 of 16LEGS6%2 of 4
Diego Sanchez27 sig landed
HEAD48%13 of 32BODY37%10 of 12LEGS15%4 of 5
31 of 65
Sig.
strikes
27 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gomi firstBen Cartlidge9–10Barry Foley9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Takanori Gomi22 sig landed
HEAD68%15 of 53BODY32%7 of 9LEGS0%0 of 3
Diego Sanchez16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 41BODY25%4 of 9LEGS25%4 of 5
22 of 65
Sig.
strikes
16 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gomi firstBen Cartlidge10–9Barry Foley10–9Chris Watts10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Takanori GomiDiego Sanchez
Official totals — Takanori Gomi first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide28–29
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

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 — 12 scored, Takanori Gomi first · unofficial

Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–28
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com30–27
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gomi · 43%29-28 Gomi · 40%29-28 Sanchez · 7%30-28 Gomi · 4%30-27 Sanchez · 3%

279 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.

Takanori Gomi

1.23takedowns / 15 min
1.23 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.51 / 15m
1.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.29 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
24%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Diego Sanchez

1.51takedowns / 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.

Takanori Gomi↑ +7.0pp
open 26.0%close 33.0%
Diego Sanchez↓ −7.0pp
open 74.0%close 67.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Takanori Gomi opened at 26.0% and closed at 33.0% (+7.0pp), with Diego Sanchez 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
Takanori Gomi26019526.0%33.0%+7.0pp
Diego Sanchez-380-22074.0%67.0%−7.0pp
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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