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Events · UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee · Rani Yahya vs Masanori Kanehara
From the tape · 15 Jul 2015

Rani Yahya vs Masanori Kanehara

UFC Fight Night: Mir vs Duffee · San Diego, California, USA
Result

Rani Yahya beat Masanori Kanehara

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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
MK
Blue corner MasanoriKaneharaReversal Gym Tachikawa Alpha · Musashimurayama, Tokyo
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Jul 2015
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Yahya.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Kanehara.
28-12-1
Record
26-12-5
−2 yr30
Age
32
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+78
UFC bouts
1
2/540% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Constrictor Team
Gym
Reversal Gym Tachikawa Alpha
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Musashimurayama, Tokyo
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 action
Rani Yahya8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 9BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Masanori Kanehara4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY25%1 of 2LEGS25%1 of 1
8 of 13
Sig.
strikes
4 of 8
4 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:12
Control
0:10
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMichael Bell10–9Mike Beltran10–9Mark Smith10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Rani Yahya11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 24BODY0%0 of 3LEGS36%4 of 4
Masanori Kanehara6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 8BODY83%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 31
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:41
Control
2:25
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMichael Bell10–9Mike Beltran10–9Mark Smith9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rani Yahya5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS60%3 of 3
Masanori Kanehara14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 16BODY29%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
5 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 22
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:26
Control
2:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMichael Bell9–10Mike Beltran9–10Mark Smith9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Rani YahyaMasanori Kanehara
Official totals — Rani Yahya first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Mike Beltran29–28
Mark Smith2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 14 scored, Rani Yahya first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28
Danny Segura dannysegura.tv29–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kanehara · 67%29-28 Yahya · 26%30-28 Kanehara · 5%29-27 Kanehara · 2%

43 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
1.44 / 15m
9.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.88 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
50%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Masanori Kanehara

1.44takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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↓ −5.3pp
open 50.0%close 44.7%
Masanori Kanehara↑ +5.3pp
open 50.0%close 55.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rani Yahya opened at 50.0% and closed at 44.7% (−5.3pp), with Masanori Kanehara 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-12011550.0%44.7%−5.3pp
Masanori Kanehara-120-13550.0%55.3%+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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