Home Events UFC - Ultimate Japan Randy Couture vs Maurice Smith Randy Couture vs Maurice Smith · UFC - Ultimate Japan Heavyweight · Title bout · 1 rounds · Card
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UFC - Ultimate Japan
Sunday, December 21, 1997 · Yokohama · Kanagawa
Full card → Result Randy Couture def. Maurice Smith Method Majority Decision Round · time Round 3 · 3:00 · 1 Rnd + 2OT (15-3-3) Referee John McCarthy Sig. strikes Randy Couture 19/31 · Maurice Smith 9/17 · PropSports · round totals Total strikes Randy Couture 54/66 · Maurice Smith 18/26 Scorecards Not on file Analysis Round-by-round (3 rounds) Result Randy Couture def. Maurice Smith
Majority Decision · Round 3 · 3:00 · 1 Rnd + 2OT (15-3-3)
Official scorecards —
No scorecard on file for this decision This bout reached the judges — Majority Decision — but the archive holds no judges’ scores for it. That is a coverage gap, not an absent decision, and it is tracked in the scorecard coverage register . No score is estimated here.
Result source · PropSports round data ↗
Round-by-Round Analysis Fight progression reconstructed from verified round-level observations.
Majority Decision · R3 · 3:00
R1 R2 R3
Randy Couture Round 3 Maurice Smith
4 / 5 Sig. strikes 3 / 9
80% Accuracy 33%
12 / 13 Total strikes 3 / 9
0 Knockdowns 0
1 / 1 Takedowns 0 / 0
0 Sub. attempts 0
— Control —
1.3 Pace / min 1.0
— Control share —
Randy Couture
Target head 100% · body 0% · leg 0%
Phase distance 0% · clinch 0% · ground 100%
Maurice Smith
Target head 67% · body 33% · leg 0%
Phase distance 100% · clinch 0% · ground 0%
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Fight summary
19 Randy Couture sig. strikes
9 Maurice Smith sig. strikes
3 rounds observed
+400% largest pace swing, R2 to R3 (Maurice Smith)
Pace is significant strikes landed per minute of observed round time. A round with no recorded observation is left empty rather than drawn as zero.
Fight stats 3 rounds · PropSports round stats 19 / 31 Sig. strikes 9 / 17
61% Accuracy 53%
54 / 66 Total strikes 18 / 26
0 Knockdowns 0
3 / 3 Takedowns 0 / 0
1 Sub attempts 0
0:00 Control 0:00
19 Head 5
0 Body 1
0 Leg 3
Randy Couture Maurice Smith
Round Fighter KD Sig. str. Total TD Sub Ctrl Head Body Leg R1
Tale of the tape 19-11-0 Record 12-14-0
34 Age 36
6'1" Height 6'2"
75" Reach —
Orthodox Stance Orthodox
2.85 Sig. str./min 0.41
2.78 TD / 15 min 0.89
Randy Couture 15-8 in archive
7 KO/TKO wins
4 Sub wins
73% Finish rate
