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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson · Nick Hein vs Yusuke Kasuya
From the tape · 26 Sep 2015

Nick Hein vs Yusuke Kasuya

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

Nick Hein beat Yusuke Kasuya

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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.

NH
Red corner NickHein“Sergeant”Tiger Muay Thai · Cologne
VSOn the tape
YK
Blue corner YusukeKasuyaCrown Dojo · Sagamihara, Kanagawa
Lightweight3 rounds26 Sep 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 83 points more takedown defence than Kasuya.
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Hein.
14-5
Record
9-3
31
Age
−6 yr25
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
Tiger Muay Thai
Gym
Crown Dojo
Cologne
From
Sagamihara, Kanagawa
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
Nick Hein9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 24BODY33%3 of 3LEGS11%1 of 1
Yusuke Kasuya12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 25BODY50%6 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
9 of 28
Sig.
strikes
12 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hein firstEvan Field9–10Albert Shen9–10Christopher Shen10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nick Hein20 sig landed
HEAD90%18 of 43BODY10%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Yusuke Kasuya18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 22BODY28%5 of 6LEGS22%4 of 6
20 of 46
Sig.
strikes
18 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hein firstEvan Field10–9Albert Shen10–9Christopher Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nick Hein17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 28BODY0%0 of 2LEGS41%7 of 8
Yusuke Kasuya14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 23BODY29%4 of 5LEGS29%4 of 4
17 of 38
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:02
Control
0:03
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hein firstEvan Field10–9Albert Shen10–9Christopher Shen10–9

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 · Steve Perceval
Nick HeinYusuke Kasuya
Official totals — Nick Hein first
JudgeTotal
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% wide29–28
Christopher Shen30–27

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 — 10 scored, Nick Hein first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hein · 50%30-27 Hein · 20%29-28 Kasuya · 20%30-28 Hein · 10%

10 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.

Nick Hein

0.86takedowns / 15 min
0.86 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.36 / 15m
2.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.12 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
33%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Yusuke Kasuya

1.36takedowns / 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.

Nick Hein↑ +6.2pp
open 68.9%close 75.0%
Yusuke Kasuya↓ −6.2pp
open 31.1%close 25.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nick Hein opened at 68.9% and closed at 75.0% (+6.2pp), with Yusuke Kasuya 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
Nick Hein-280-34768.9%75.0%+6.2pp
Yusuke Kasuya20028731.1%25.0%−6.2pp
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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