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Events · UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira · Takanori Gomi vs Isaac Vallie-Flagg
From the tape · 26 Apr 2014

Takanori Gomi vs Isaac Vallie-Flagg

UFC 172: Jones vs Teixeira · Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Result

Takanori Gomi beat Isaac Vallie-Flagg

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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
IV
Blue corner IsaacVallie-FlaggJackson-Wink MMA · Santa Fe, New Mexico
Lightweight3 rounds26 Apr 2014
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Lands 1.7 more significant strikes a minute than Gomi.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Vallie-Flagg.
35-14
Record
16-7-1
−1 yr35
Age
36
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
70″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+57
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Kugayama Rascal
Gym
Jackson-Wink MMA
Samukawa, Kanagawa
From
Santa Fe, 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 action
Takanori Gomi27 sig landed
HEAD67%18 of 51BODY26%7 of 9LEGS7%2 of 4
Isaac Vallie-Flagg27 sig landed
HEAD44%12 of 43BODY41%11 of 13LEGS15%4 of 5
27 of 64
Sig.
strikes
27 of 61
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:44
Control
0:01
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gomi firstMike Barry9–10Richard Bertrand9–10Brent Colflesh9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Takanori Gomi59 sig landed
HEAD66%39 of 75BODY29%17 of 23LEGS5%3 of 3
Isaac Vallie-Flagg52 sig landed
HEAD63%33 of 72BODY25%13 of 17LEGS12%6 of 7
59 of 101
Sig.
strikes
52 of 96
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:23
Control
0:00
Distance 57Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 49Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gomi firstMike Barry10–9Richard Bertrand10–9Brent Colflesh10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Takanori Gomi44 sig landed
HEAD70%31 of 59BODY23%10 of 13LEGS7%3 of 3
Isaac Vallie-Flagg28 sig landed
HEAD57%16 of 46BODY25%7 of 9LEGS18%5 of 5
44 of 75
Sig.
strikes
28 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:46
Control
1:10
Distance 36Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 4Ground 3
Judges · this round · Gomi firstMike Barry10–9Richard Bertrand10–9Brent Colflesh10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Takanori GomiIsaac Vallie-Flagg
Official totals — Takanori Gomi first
JudgeTotal
Mike Barry29–28
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Brent Colflesh29–28

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 — 11 scored, Takanori Gomi first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Chase Raymond BJPenn.com29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gomi · 45%30-27 Gomi · 29%29-28 Vallie-Flagg · 23%

31 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
0.20 / 15m
1.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.67 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
12%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Isaac Vallie-Flagg

0.20takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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↓ −2.1pp
open 61.4%close 59.3%
Isaac Vallie-Flagg↑ +2.1pp
open 38.6%close 40.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Takanori Gomi opened at 61.4% and closed at 59.3% (−2.1pp), with Isaac Vallie-Flagg 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 Gomi-185-15561.4%59.3%−2.1pp
Isaac Vallie-Flagg14514038.6%40.7%+2.1pp
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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