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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa · Keita Nakamura vs Salim Touahri
From the tape · 1 Dec 2018

Keita Nakamura vs Salim Touahri

UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Tuivasa · Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Result

Keita Nakamura beat Salim Touahri

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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.

KN
Red corner KeitaNakamura“K-Taro”United Gym Tokyo · Katsushika, Tokyo
VSOn the tape
ST
Blue corner SalimTouahri“Grizzly”Grappling Krakow · Cracow
Welterweight3 rounds1 Dec 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Nakamura.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Touahri.
34-10-2
Record
10-4
34
Age
−5 yr29
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
+1″73″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+89
UFC bouts
1
United Gym Tokyo
Gym
Grappling Krakow
Katsushika, Tokyo
From
Cracow
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
Keita Nakamura7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS14%1 of 2
Salim Touahri11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 13BODY45%5 of 6LEGS27%3 of 3
7 of 23
Sig.
strikes
11 of 22
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstHowie Booth10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Nakamura
Keita Nakamura18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 27BODY11%2 of 3LEGS17%3 of 3
Salim Touahri16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 22BODY56%9 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 33
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:40
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstHowie Booth10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Keita Nakamura16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 35BODY0%0 of 2LEGS19%3 of 4
Salim Touahri7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 17BODY43%3 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 41
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstHowie Booth10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Jim Perdios
Keita NakamuraSalim Touahri
Official totals — Keita Nakamura first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% 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 — 12 scored, Keita Nakamura first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–28
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nakamura · 59%30-27 Nakamura · 29%30-28 Nakamura · 6%

17 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.

Keita Nakamura

1.65takedowns / 15 min
1.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
3.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
48%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Salim Touahri

0.00takedowns / 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.

Keita Nakamura↓ −3.8pp
open 62.8%close 59.0%
Salim Touahri↑ +3.8pp
open 37.2%close 41.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Keita Nakamura opened at 62.8% and closed at 59.0% (−3.8pp), with Salim Touahri 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
Keita Nakamura-195-15962.8%59.0%−3.8pp
Salim Touahri15513437.2%41.0%+3.8pp
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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