This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez · Tatsuro Taira vs Carlos Hernandez
From the tape · 9 Dec 2023

Tatsuro Taira vs Carlos Hernandez

UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tatsuro Taira beat Carlos Hernandez

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
0:55
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 TatsuroTairaThe Blackbelt Japan · Naha, Okinawa
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CarlosHernandezValle Flow Striking · Chicago, Illinois
Flyweight3 rounds9 Dec 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 19 points more takedown defence than Taira.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
18-2
Record
10-5
−7 yr23
Age
30
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+14
UFC bouts
3
2/450% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
The Blackbelt Japan
Gym
Valle Flow Striking
Naha, Okinawa
From
Chicago, Illinois
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Tatsuro Taira12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Carlos Hernandez0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

12 of 19
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
3:21
Control
0:53
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 12
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 20:55 of action⚡ 1 KD TairaEnded 0:55
Tatsuro Taira21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 21BODY5%1 of 1LEGS10%2 of 2
Carlos Hernandez2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
21 of 24
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Tatsuro Taira

Round
2
Clock
0:55
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Mark Smith.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Tatsuro Taira

3.57takedowns / 15 min
3.57 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.56 / 15m
8.30 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.43 / 15m
43%
ACCURACY
21%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Carlos Hernandez

1.56takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Tatsuro Taira↑ +8.2pp
open 73.4%close 81.6%
Carlos Hernandez↓ −8.2pp
open 26.6%close 18.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tatsuro Taira opened at 73.4% and closed at 81.6% (+8.2pp), with Carlos Hernandez 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
Tatsuro Taira-325-59673.4%81.6%+8.2pp
Carlos Hernandez26041726.6%18.4%−8.2pp
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% · dated 2023-12-10 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
← Every fighter on the record