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Events · UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson · Kiichi Kunimoto vs Richard Walsh
From the tape · 20 Sep 2014

Kiichi Kunimoto vs Richard Walsh

UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson · Saitama, Japan
Result

Kiichi Kunimoto beat Richard Walsh

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jerin Valel

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.

KK
Red corner KiichiKunimoto“Strasser”Cobra Kai MMA Dojo · Osaka, Osaka
VSOn the tape
RW
Blue corner RichardWalsh“Filthy Rich”VT1 Martial Arts Academy · Sydney, New South Wales
Welterweight3 rounds20 Sep 2014
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Kunimoto.
18-7-2
Record
9-5
33
Age
−8 yr25
5' 10"
Height
+2″6' 0"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Cobra Kai MMA Dojo
Gym
VT1 Martial Arts Academy
Osaka, Osaka
From
Sydney, New South Wales
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 2 KD Walsh
Kiichi Kunimoto10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 28BODY30%3 of 5LEGS20%2 of 2
Richard Walsh33 sig landed
HEAD55%18 of 32BODY15%5 of 8LEGS30%10 of 11
10 of 35
Sig.
strikes
33 of 51
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:03
Control
1:45
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 11Ground 4
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Kiichi Kunimoto11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 21BODY55%6 of 6LEGS18%2 of 2
Richard Walsh16 sig landed
HEAD62%10 of 28BODY25%4 of 6LEGS12%2 of 2
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
16 of 36
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
1:31
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Kiichi Kunimoto15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 21BODY33%5 of 5LEGS13%2 of 2
Richard Walsh10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 10BODY10%1 of 2LEGS60%6 of 6
15 of 28
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:26
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Jerin Valel
Official totals — Kiichi Kunimoto first
JudgeTotal
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Kiichi Kunimoto

1.59takedowns / 15 min
1.59 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.55 / 15m
7.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.88 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
40%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Richard Walsh

1.55takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Kiichi Kunimoto↑ +4.5pp
open 63.8%close 68.3%
Richard Walsh↓ −4.5pp
open 36.2%close 31.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Kiichi Kunimoto opened at 63.8% and closed at 68.3% (+4.5pp), with Richard Walsh 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
Kiichi Kunimoto-210-23563.8%68.3%+4.5pp
Richard Walsh16020736.2%31.7%−4.5pp
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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