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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann · Mizuto Hirota vs Rani Yahya
From the tape · 2 Mar 2013

Mizuto Hirota vs Rani Yahya

UFC on FUEL TV: Silva vs. Stann · Saitama, Japan
Result

Rani Yahya beat Mizuto Hirota

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain 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.

MH
Red corner MizutoHirota“Pugnus”Cave · Isahaya, Nagasaki
VSOn the tape
RY
Blue corner RaniYahyaConstrictor Team · Brasilia, Federal District
Featherweight3 rounds2 Mar 2013
The story going in
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Yahya.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Hirota.
18-10-2
Record
28-12-1
31
Age
−3 yr28
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Cave
Gym
Constrictor Team
Isahaya, Nagasaki
From
Brasilia, Federal District
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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
Mizuto Hirota0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Rani Yahya3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
3 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:49
Control
3:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Hirota firstBen Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mizuto Hirota0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 3 thrown

Rani Yahya8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 11BODY25%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 3
Sig.
strikes
8 of 13
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:15
Control
4:20
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Hirota firstBen Cartlidge9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Chris Watts9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mizuto Hirota4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 9BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Rani Yahya2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 8BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 8
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 7
2:06
Control
1:18
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Hirota firstBen Cartlidge10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Watts10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Mizuto HirotaRani Yahya
Official totals — Mizuto Hirota first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

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

Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
T. P. Grant BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com28–29
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Whitman Sherdog.com28–29
Dave Doyle MMAFighting.com28–29
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yahya · 100%

14 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
2.73 / 15m
2.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.10 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
30%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.80 / 15m

Rani Yahya

2.73takedowns / 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 (5.32 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↑ +10.7pp
open 48.1%close 58.8%
Rani Yahya↓ −10.7pp
open 51.9%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mizuto Hirota opened at 48.1% and closed at 58.8% (+10.7pp), with Rani Yahya 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-110-15248.1%58.8%+10.7pp
Rani Yahya-13013751.9%41.2%−10.7pp
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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