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History · 2024 · UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 · Rei Tsuruya vs Carlos Hernandez
From the tape · 29 Jun 2024

Rei Tsuruya vs Carlos Hernandez

UFC 303: Pereira vs. Prochazka 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rei Tsuruya beat Carlos Hernandez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 ReiTsuruyaThe Blackbelt Japan · Kashiwa, Chiba
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CarlosHernandezValle Flow Striking · Chicago, Illinois
Flyweight3 rounds29 Jun 2024
The story going in
  • Averages 3.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Hernandez.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Tsuruya.
12-1
Record
10-5
−8 yr22
Age
30
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
The Blackbelt Japan
Gym
Valle Flow Striking
Kashiwa, Chiba
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 — 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
Rei Tsuruya2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 11BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Carlos Hernandez8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 18BODY12%1 of 1LEGS50%4 of 4
2 of 12
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:16
Control
0:06
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tsuruya firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rei Tsuruya13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 16BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Carlos Hernandez2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
13 of 17
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:42
Control
0:00
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 13
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Tsuruya firstMichael Bell10–9Adalaide Byrd10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rei Tsuruya2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Carlos Hernandez6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 3BODY67%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 3
Sig.
strikes
6 of 7
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:21
Control
4:23
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 2
Judges · this round · Tsuruya firstMichael Bell9–10Adalaide Byrd9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Rei TsuruyaCarlos Hernandez
Official totals — Rei Tsuruya first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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 — 15 scored, Rei Tsuruya first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Tsuruya · 81%29-27 Tsuruya · 12%29-28 Hernandez · 7%

42 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.

Rei Tsuruya

5.06takedowns / 15 min
5.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.56 / 15m
13.68 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.43 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
21%
1.90 / 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.

Rei Tsuruya↑ +2.2pp
open 75.5%close 77.7%
Carlos Hernandez↓ −2.2pp
open 24.5%close 22.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rei Tsuruya opened at 75.5% and closed at 77.7% (+2.2pp), 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
Rei Tsuruya-400-43775.5%77.7%+2.2pp
Carlos Hernandez28532924.5%22.3%−2.2pp
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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