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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson · Mizuto Hirota vs Teruto Ishihara
From the tape · 26 Sep 2015

Mizuto Hirota vs Teruto Ishihara

UFC Fight Night: Barnett vs Nelson · Saitama, Japan
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Greg Kleynjans

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.

MH
Red corner MizutoHirota“Pugnus”Cave · Born in Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan · Fights out of Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
VSOn the tape
TI
Blue corner TerutoIshihara“Yashabo”Team Alpha Male Japan · Born in Ōshima District, Kagoshima, Japan · Fights out of Sacramento, California, United States
Featherweight3 rounds26 Sep 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Ishihara.
18-10-2
Record
10-7-2
34
Age
−10 yr24
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Cave
Gym
Team Alpha Male Japan
Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Born in
Ōshima District, Kagoshima, Japan
Sumida, Tokyo, Japan
Fights out of
Sacramento, California, United States
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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⚡ 1 KD Ishihara
Mizuto Hirota13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 47BODY8%1 of 4LEGS23%3 of 5
Teruto Ishihara37 sig landed
HEAD65%24 of 52BODY16%6 of 8LEGS19%7 of 7
13 of 56
Sig.
strikes
37 of 67
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:09
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Hirota firstHowie Booth9–10Charlie Keech9–10Christopher Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Mizuto Hirota23 sig landed
HEAD100%23 of 64BODY0%0 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Teruto Ishihara36 sig landed
HEAD69%25 of 49BODY19%7 of 12LEGS11%4 of 4
23 of 69
Sig.
strikes
36 of 65
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:48
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hirota firstHowie Booth10–9Charlie Keech9–10Christopher Shen10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD IshiharaEnded 5:00
Mizuto Hirota26 sig landed
HEAD88%23 of 54BODY12%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Teruto Ishihara15 sig landed
HEAD87%13 of 33BODY7%1 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
26 of 58
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:29
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 12Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hirota firstHowie Booth10–9Charlie Keech10–9Christopher Shen10–10

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

Decision - Split

Referee · Greg Kleynjans
Mizuto HirotaTeruto Ishihara
Official totals — Mizuto Hirota first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide29–28
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Christopher Shen29–29

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, Mizuto Hirota first · unofficial

Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Patrick Wyman Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Hirota · 68%29-28 Ishihara · 15%28-26 Ishihara · 2%

59 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.

Mizuto Hirota

1.36takedowns / 15 min
1.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
2.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.12 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
16%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Teruto Ishihara

0.50takedowns / 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 (5.56 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Mizuto Hirota↑ +5.5pp
open 66.1%close 71.7%
Teruto Ishihara↓ −5.5pp
open 33.9%close 28.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mizuto Hirota opened at 66.1% and closed at 71.7% (+5.5pp), with Teruto Ishihara 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
Mizuto Hirota-245-28566.1%71.7%+5.5pp
Teruto Ishihara17524233.9%28.3%−5.5pp
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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