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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs Nelson · Michinori Tanaka vs Kyung Ho Kang
From the tape · 20 Sep 2014

Michinori Tanaka vs Kyung Ho Kang

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

Kyung Ho Kang beat Michinori Tanaka

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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.

MT
Red corner MichinoriTanakaTeam Alpha Male Japan · Yokohama, Kanagawa
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Kyung HoKang“Mr. Perfect”Busan Team MAD · Busan, Yeongnam
Bantamweight3 rounds20 Sep 2014
11-3
Record
19-11
−4 yr23
Age
27
5' 5"
Height
+4″5' 9"
67″
Reach
+6″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Team Alpha Male Japan
Gym
Busan Team MAD
Yokohama, Kanagawa
From
Busan, Yeongnam
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
Michinori Tanaka1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kyung Ho Kang4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:01
Control
3:31
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Tanaka firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Michinori Tanaka13 sig landed
HEAD100%13 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Kyung Ho Kang6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 13BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
13 of 19
Sig.
strikes
6 of 16
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:59
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tanaka firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michinori Tanaka8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 36BODY25%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Kyung Ho Kang11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 38BODY9%1 of 2LEGS18%2 of 4
8 of 39
Sig.
strikes
11 of 44
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:49
Control
0:56
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tanaka firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Kon Papaioannou9–10

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 · Jerin Valel
Michinori TanakaKyung Ho Kang
Official totals — Michinori Tanaka first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% 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, Michinori Tanaka first · unofficial

John Pollock Fight Network27–30
Trent Dozier LastWordOnSports.com27–30
Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Severe MMA.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com29–28
C. J. Tuttle Sherdog.com29–28
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kang · 43%29-28 Tanaka · 35%30-28 Kang · 5%30-27 Kang · 5%

37 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.

Michinori Tanaka

2.40takedowns / 15 min
2.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
6.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.94 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kyung Ho Kang

1.97takedowns / 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.

Michinori Tanaka↑ +3.4pp
open 55.8%close 59.2%
Kyung Ho Kang↓ −3.4pp
open 44.2%close 40.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michinori Tanaka opened at 55.8% and closed at 59.2% (+3.4pp), with Kyung Ho Kang 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
Michinori Tanaka-150-15455.8%59.2%+3.4pp
Kyung Ho Kang11013944.2%40.8%−3.4pp
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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