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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres · Cub Swanson vs Tatsuya Kawajiri
From the tape · 6 Aug 2016

Cub Swanson vs Tatsuya Kawajiri

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Result

Cub Swanson beat Tatsuya Kawajiri

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · John McCarthy

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.

Red corner CubSwansonUFC Gym Costa Mesa · Palm Springs, California
VSOn the tape
TK
Blue corner TatsuyaKawajiri“Crusher”T-Blood · Inashiki, Ibaraki
Featherweight3 rounds6 Aug 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Swanson.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Kawajiri.
31-14
Record
36-11-2
−6 yr32
Age
38
+1″5' 8"
Height
5' 7"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+510
UFC bouts
5
+24%4/757% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
UFC Gym Costa Mesa
Gym
T-Blood
Palm Springs, California
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
Cub Swanson10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS10%1 of 1
Tatsuya Kawajiri6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 21BODY17%1 of 2LEGS50%3 of 4
10 of 19
Sig.
strikes
6 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
2:29
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Swanson firstJeff Dutcher9–10Dan Furse10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Cub Swanson27 sig landed
HEAD70%19 of 40BODY22%6 of 7LEGS7%2 of 2
Tatsuya Kawajiri13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 41BODY8%1 of 5LEGS38%5 of 6
27 of 49
Sig.
strikes
13 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:42
Control
0:35
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 3Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Swanson firstJeff Dutcher10–9Dan Furse10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Cub Swanson30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 34BODY13%4 of 4LEGS10%3 of 3
Tatsuya Kawajiri4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
30 of 41
Sig.
strikes
4 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 5
1:18
Control
2:24
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Swanson firstJeff Dutcher10–9Dan Furse10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · John McCarthy
Cub SwansonTatsuya Kawajiri
Official totals — Cub Swanson first
JudgeTotal
Jeff Dutcher29–28
Dan Furse30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 17 scored, Cub Swanson first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Youngs TheMMACorner.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Swanson · 64%29-28 Kawajiri · 19%30-27 Kawajiri · 2%29-26 Kawajiri · 2%

47 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.

Cub Swanson

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.63 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.56 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
48%
0.40 / 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.

Cub Swanson↑ +8.1pp
open 66.1%close 74.3%
Tatsuya Kawajiri↓ −8.1pp
open 33.9%close 25.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Cub Swanson opened at 66.1% and closed at 74.3% (+8.1pp), 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
Cub Swanson-245-33566.1%74.3%+8.1pp
Tatsuya Kawajiri17527533.9%25.7%−8.1pp
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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