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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Saint Preux · Frankie Saenz vs Sirwan Kakai
From the tape · 8 Aug 2015

Frankie Saenz vs Sirwan Kakai

UFC Fight Night: Teixeira vs Saint Preux · Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Result

Frankie Saenz beat Sirwan Kakai

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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.

FS
Red corner FrankieSaenzFight Ready · Scottsdale, Arizona
VSOn the tape
SK
Blue corner SirwanKakai“Zohan”Gothenburg
Bantamweight3 rounds8 Aug 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Saenz.
13-7
Record
12-5
34
Age
−9 yr25
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Scottsdale, Arizona
From
Gothenburg
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
Frankie Saenz26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 39BODY38%10 of 15LEGS12%3 of 3
Sirwan Kakai19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 17BODY21%4 of 5LEGS42%8 of 9
26 of 57
Sig.
strikes
19 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:05
Control
1:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 19Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Frankie Saenz30 sig landed
HEAD67%20 of 68BODY20%6 of 8LEGS13%4 of 4
Sirwan Kakai24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 42BODY17%4 of 5LEGS17%4 of 5
30 of 80
Sig.
strikes
24 of 52
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:11
Control
0:36
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 7Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary9–10Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Frankie Saenz24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 35BODY29%7 of 9LEGS8%2 of 2
Sirwan Kakai12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 23BODY42%5 of 6LEGS8%1 of 1
24 of 46
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:25
Control
0:18
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 17Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Saenz firstRichard Bertrand10–9Derek Cleary10–9Chris Lee10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Frankie SaenzSirwan Kakai
Official totals — Frankie Saenz first
JudgeTotal
Richard Bertrand2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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, Frankie Saenz first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28
Nate Wilcox BloodyElbow.com30–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kakai · 49%30-27 Saenz · 23%29-28 Saenz · 21%30-28 Saenz · 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.

Frankie Saenz

1.74takedowns / 15 min
1.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.00 / 15m
5.61 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.52 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
42%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Sirwan Kakai

4.00takedowns / 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 (5.45 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.

Frankie Saenz↓ −6.4pp
open 51.9%close 45.5%
Sirwan Kakai↑ +6.4pp
open 48.1%close 54.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Frankie Saenz opened at 51.9% and closed at 45.5% (−6.4pp), with Sirwan Kakai 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
Frankie Saenz-13011151.9%45.5%−6.4pp
Sirwan Kakai-110-13148.1%54.5%+6.4pp
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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