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Events · UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber · Phillipe Nover vs Yui Chul Nam
From the tape · 16 May 2015

Phillipe Nover vs Yui Chul Nam

UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Faber · Manila, Philippines
Result

Phillipe Nover beat Yui Chul Nam

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.

PN
Red corner PhillipeNover“The Filipino Assassin”Team Renzo Gracie · Brooklyn, New York
VSOn the tape
YN
Blue corner Yui ChulNam“The Korean Bulldozer”Seoul
Featherweight3 rounds16 May 2015
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 16 points more accurate striking than Nover.
  • Carries 8 points more striking defence than Nam.
11-8-1
Record
18-8-1
−2 yr31
Age
33
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+23
UFC bouts
1
Brooklyn, New York
From
Seoul
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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
Phillipe Nover10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 9BODY20%2 of 2LEGS10%1 of 1
Yui Chul Nam3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY67%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 12
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 7Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nover firstMark Craig10–9Barry Foley10–9Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Phillipe Nover2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY100%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Yui Chul Nam20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 29BODY5%1 of 3LEGS35%7 of 8
2 of 5
Sig.
strikes
20 of 40
2 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:46
Control
2:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 9Ground 10
Judges · this round · Nover firstMark Craig10–9Barry Foley9–10Kon Papaioannou10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Phillipe Nover0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 7 thrown

Yui Chul Nam6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS67%4 of 5
0 of 7
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
4:23
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 2
Judges · this round · Nover firstMark Craig9–10Barry Foley9–10Kon Papaioannou9–10

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 · Greg Kleynjans
Phillipe NoverYui Chul Nam
Official totals — Phillipe Nover first
JudgeTotal
Mark Craig29–28
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide28–29
Kon Papaioannou2.1 avg spread · 42% 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 — 12 scored, Phillipe Nover first · unofficial

Nathan McCarter BleacherReport.com29–28
Cage Pages.com28–29
Pundit Arena.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Wrestling Observer28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Nam · 85%29-28 Nover · 10%29-27 Nam · 2%30-24 Nover · 2%30-27 Nam · 2%

52 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.

Phillipe Nover

0.99takedowns / 15 min
0.99 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.33 / 15m
3.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.31 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
16%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Yui Chul Nam

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

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Phillipe Nover↑ +3.8pp
open 37.9%close 41.7%
Yui Chul Nam↓ −3.8pp
open 62.1%close 58.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Phillipe Nover opened at 37.9% and closed at 41.7% (+3.8pp), with Yui Chul Nam 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
Phillipe Nover15013237.9%41.7%+3.8pp
Yui Chul Nam-190-15262.1%58.3%−3.8pp
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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