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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy · Dennis Bermudez vs Tatsuya Kawajiri
From the tape · 21 Feb 2016

Dennis Bermudez vs Tatsuya Kawajiri

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs Cowboy · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Result

Dennis Bermudez beat Tatsuya Kawajiri

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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.

DB
Red corner DennisBermudez“The Menace”Long Island MMA · Saugerties, New York
VSOn the tape
TK
Blue corner TatsuyaKawajiri“Crusher”T-Blood · Inashiki, Ibaraki
Featherweight3 rounds21 Feb 2016
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
17-9
Record
36-11-2
−8 yr29
Age
37
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
66″
Reach
+3″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+610
UFC bouts
4
+10%3/743% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Long Island MMA
Gym
T-Blood
Saugerties, New York
From
Inashiki, Ibaraki
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
Dennis Bermudez7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 4BODY43%3 of 3LEGS29%2 of 2
Tatsuya Kawajiri5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 5BODY40%2 of 2LEGS40%2 of 3
7 of 9
Sig.
strikes
5 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
2:58
Control
0:34
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstAndrew Adkins9–10Eric Colón9–10Todd Kruszka9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Dennis Bermudez40 sig landed
HEAD95%38 of 44BODY0%0 of 1LEGS5%2 of 2
Tatsuya Kawajiri4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 8BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
40 of 47
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:03
Control
3:13
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 36
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstAndrew Adkins10–9Eric Colón10–9Todd Kruszka10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Dennis Bermudez14 sig landed
HEAD79%11 of 20BODY14%2 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
Tatsuya Kawajiri3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 5BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
3:42
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 5Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bermudez firstAndrew Adkins10–9Eric Colón10–9Todd Kruszka10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Dennis BermudezTatsuya Kawajiri
Official totals — Dennis Bermudez first
JudgeTotal
Andrew Adkins29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Todd Kruszka29–28

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 — 17 scored, Dennis Bermudez first · unofficial

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com30–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com29–28
Adrian MacNair MMAMania.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bermudez · 55%29-26 Bermudez · 15%30-27 Bermudez · 10%29-27 Bermudez · 10%30-26 Bermudez · 10%

20 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.

Dennis Bermudez

3.89takedowns / 15 min
3.89 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.63 / 15m
9.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.56 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
48%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Tatsuya Kawajiri

3.63takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Dennis Bermudez↑ +1.2pp
open 74.3%close 75.5%
Tatsuya Kawajiri↓ −1.2pp
open 25.7%close 24.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dennis Bermudez opened at 74.3% and closed at 75.5% (+1.2pp), with Tatsuya Kawajiri 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
Dennis Bermudez-385-35774.3%75.5%+1.2pp
Tatsuya Kawajiri26529525.7%24.5%−1.2pp
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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