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Events · UFC on FUEL TV: Mousasi vs Latifi · Papy Abedi vs Besam Yousef
From the tape · 6 Apr 2013

Papy Abedi vs Besam Yousef

UFC on FUEL TV: Mousasi vs Latifi · Stockholm, Sweden
Result

Papy Abedi beat Besam Yousef

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Robert Sundel

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.

PA
Red corner PapyAbedi“Makambo”Allstars Training Center · Stockholm
VSOn the tape
BY
Blue corner BesamYousefGladius MMA · Gothenburg
Welterweight3 rounds6 Apr 2013
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Yousef.
10-4
Record
7-4
34
Age
−6 yr28
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Allstars Training Center
Gym
Gladius MMA
Stockholm
From
Gothenburg
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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
Papy Abedi17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 13BODY59%10 of 11LEGS18%3 of 7
Besam Yousef12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 16BODY33%4 of 5LEGS17%2 of 2
17 of 31
Sig.
strikes
12 of 23
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:32
Control
0:50
Distance 3Clinch 8Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abedi firstJim Bergman10–9Howard Hughes10–9Andreas Ramsby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Papy Abedi23 sig landed
HEAD30%7 of 13BODY70%16 of 18LEGS0%0 of 2
Besam Yousef16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 24BODY50%8 of 8LEGS6%1 of 1
23 of 33
Sig.
strikes
16 of 33
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:40
Control
1:21
Distance 5Clinch 12Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 15Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abedi firstJim Bergman10–9Howard Hughes10–9Andreas Ramsby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Papy Abedi13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 5BODY69%9 of 10LEGS8%1 of 1
Besam Yousef15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 15BODY40%6 of 6LEGS0%0 of 2
13 of 16
Sig.
strikes
15 of 23
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:26
Control
2:15
Distance 2Clinch 7Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abedi firstJim Bergman9–10Howard Hughes9–10Andreas Ramsby9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Robert Sundel
Papy AbediBesam Yousef
Official totals — Papy Abedi first
JudgeTotal
Jim Bergman29–28
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Andreas Ramsby28–29

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 — 10 scored, Papy Abedi first · unofficial

Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
Mike Fridley Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com28–29
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AWeekly.com28–29
Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yousef · 79%29-28 Abedi · 21%

19 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.

Papy Abedi

3.47takedowns / 15 min
3.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.33 / 15m
6.09 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.02 / 15m
57%
ACCURACY
66%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Besam Yousef

1.33takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Papy Abedi↓ −5.3pp
open 59.2%close 53.8%
Besam Yousef↑ +5.3pp
open 40.8%close 46.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Papy Abedi opened at 59.2% and closed at 53.8% (−5.3pp), with Besam Yousef 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
Papy Abedi-170-12559.2%53.8%−5.3pp
Besam Yousef13011040.8%46.2%+5.3pp
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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