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Events · UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres · Yair Rodriguez vs Alex Caceres
From the tape · 6 Aug 2016

Yair Rodriguez vs Alex Caceres

UFC Fight Night: Rodriguez vs. Caceres · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Result

Yair Rodriguez beat Alex Caceres

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · 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.

Red corner YairRodriguez“El Pantera”Valle Flow Striking · Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexCaceres“Bruce Leeroy”MMA Lab · Miami, Florida
Featherweight5 rounds6 Aug 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
21-6
Record
21-15
−5 yr23
Age
28
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+1014
1/425% of wins
Finishes
+4%2/729% of wins
Valle Flow Striking
Gym
MMA Lab
Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua
From
Miami, Florida
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Yair Rodriguez16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 48BODY12%2 of 3LEGS31%5 of 7
Alex Caceres8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 19BODY12%1 of 2LEGS38%3 of 5
16 of 58
Sig.
strikes
8 of 26
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:16
Control
0:04
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Yair Rodriguez23 sig landed
HEAD30%7 of 41BODY30%7 of 12LEGS39%9 of 9
Alex Caceres6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%3 of 4
23 of 62
Sig.
strikes
6 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary10–9Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Yair Rodriguez27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 57BODY15%4 of 6LEGS26%7 of 9
Alex Caceres12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 30BODY8%1 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
27 of 72
Sig.
strikes
12 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:57
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Yair Rodriguez25 sig landed
HEAD48%12 of 48BODY12%3 of 3LEGS40%10 of 10
Alex Caceres14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 49BODY14%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
25 of 61
Sig.
strikes
14 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Glenn Trowbridge9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Yair Rodriguez29 sig landed
HEAD66%19 of 73BODY3%1 of 2LEGS31%9 of 10
Alex Caceres22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 47BODY23%5 of 6LEGS5%1 of 1
29 of 85
Sig.
strikes
22 of 54
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:09
Control
0:37
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rodriguez firstDerek Cleary9–10Glenn Trowbridge10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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
Yair RodriguezAlex Caceres
Official totals — Yair Rodriguez first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide46–49
Glenn Trowbridge2.1 avg spread · 47% wide48–47
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide48–47

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 — 19 scored, Yair Rodriguez first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
John Pollock Fight Network49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com49–46
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com49–46
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
MM AForum.com.br49–46
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com49–46
Rob Young CombatPress.com49–46
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAFighting.com49–47
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com49–47
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com49–47
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Rodriguez · 60%48-47 Rodriguez · 21%49-47 Rodriguez · 7%48-47 Caceres · 5%50-45 Rodriguez · 5%

175 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.

Yair Rodriguez

0.71takedowns / 15 min
0.71 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.54 / 15m
2.45 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.79 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
68%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Alex Caceres

0.54takedowns / 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.

Yair Rodriguez↑ +0.9pp
open 73.1%close 74.0%
Alex Caceres↓ −0.9pp
open 26.9%close 26.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Yair Rodriguez opened at 73.1% and closed at 74.0% (+0.9pp), with Alex Caceres 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
Yair Rodriguez-350-32773.1%74.0%+0.9pp
Alex Caceres25027226.9%26.0%−0.9pp
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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