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History · 2013 · UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung · Rani Yahya vs Josh Clopton
From the tape · 3 Aug 2013

Rani Yahya vs Josh Clopton

UFC 163: Aldo vs Jung · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Rani Yahya beat Josh Clopton

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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.

RY
Red corner RaniYahyaConstrictor Team · Brasilia, Federal District
VSOn the tape
JC
Blue corner JoshClopton“The Gentleman”Skrap Pack · San Francisco, California
Featherweight3 rounds3 Aug 2013
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 46 points more takedown defence than Yahya.
28-12-1
Record
6-2-1
−4 yr28
Age
32
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+34
UFC bouts
1
Constrictor Team
Gym
Skrap Pack
Brasilia, Federal District
From
San Francisco, California
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 action1 sub attempt
Rani Yahya9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 15BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 of 3
Josh Clopton0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

9 of 19
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:10
Control
0:39
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Mark Collett10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rani Yahya4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 12BODY25%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 2
Josh Clopton0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 2 thrown

4 of 15
Sig.
strikes
0 of 2
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:13
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstGuilherme Bravo10–9Mark Collett10–9Chris Watts10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rani Yahya1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Josh Clopton5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 8BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 6
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:59
Control
2:40
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Yahya firstGuilherme Bravo9–10Mark Collett9–10Chris Watts9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Rani YahyaJosh Clopton
Official totals — Rani Yahya first
JudgeTotal
Guilherme Bravo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Chris Watts1.9 avg spread · 46% wide29–28

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 — 11 scored, Rani Yahya first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com30–27
Steven Rondina BleacherReport.com29–27
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Adam Martin Sportsnet.ca29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
TJ DeSantis Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
MM AWeekly.com29–28
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yahya · 86%30-27 Yahya · 14%

7 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.

Rani Yahya

2.73takedowns / 15 min
2.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
9.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.03 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
66%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Josh Clopton

2.00takedowns / 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.

Rani Yahya↑ +6.1pp
open 82.4%close 88.5%
Josh Clopton↓ −6.1pp
open 17.6%close 11.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rani Yahya opened at 82.4% and closed at 88.5% (+6.1pp), with Josh Clopton 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
Rani Yahya-705-100082.4%88.5%+6.1pp
Josh Clopton43574717.6%11.5%−6.1pp
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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