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History · 2025 · UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev · Joshua Van vs Rei Tsuruya
From the tape · 8 Mar 2025

Joshua Van vs Rei Tsuruya

UFC 313: Pereira vs. Ankalaev · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Joshua Van beat Rei Tsuruya

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 JoshuaVan“The Fearless”4oz. Fight Club · Hakha, Chin
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ReiTsuruyaThe Blackbelt Japan · Kashiwa, Chiba
Flyweight3 rounds8 Mar 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 4.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Van.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Tsuruya.
17-2
Record
12-1
23
Age
−1 yr22
5' 5"
Height
+1″5' 6"
65″
Reach
+3″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+56
UFC bouts
1
1/520% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
4oz. Fight Club
Gym
The Blackbelt Japan
Hakha, Chin
From
Kashiwa, Chiba
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
Joshua Van17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 22BODY35%6 of 6LEGS6%1 of 1
Rei Tsuruya6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 6
0:06
Control
1:49
Distance 14Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Van firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Joshua Van18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 22BODY28%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Rei Tsuruya11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 30BODY9%1 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
18 of 28
Sig.
strikes
11 of 33
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 9
0:25
Control
1:24
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Van firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Joshua Van24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 30BODY33%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Rei Tsuruya15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 35BODY7%1 of 1LEGS7%1 of 1
24 of 40
Sig.
strikes
15 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:19
Control
0:36
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Van firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Joshua VanRei Tsuruya
Official totals — Joshua Van first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% 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 — 13 scored, Joshua Van first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Van · 82%29-28 Van · 10%30-26 Van · 4%29-27 Van · 2%

67 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.

Joshua Van

0.82takedowns / 15 min
0.82 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.06 / 15m
1.34 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
13.68 / 15m
61%
ACCURACY
37%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.90 / 15m

Rei Tsuruya

5.06takedowns / 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.

Joshua Van↓ −1.4pp
open 59.1%close 57.7%
Rei Tsuruya↑ +1.4pp
open 40.9%close 42.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Joshua Van opened at 59.1% and closed at 57.7% (−1.4pp), with Rei Tsuruya 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
Joshua Van-165-15259.1%57.7%−1.4pp
Rei Tsuruya13212640.9%42.3%+1.4pp
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 2025-03-09 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.
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