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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg · Rani Yahya vs Michinori Tanaka
From the tape · 24 Sep 2016

Rani Yahya vs Michinori Tanaka

UFC Fight Night: Cyborg vs. Lansberg · Brasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Result

Rani Yahya beat Michinori Tanaka

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Fernando Portella

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
MT
Blue corner MichinoriTanakaTeam Alpha Male Japan · Yokohama, Kanagawa
Bantamweight3 rounds24 Sep 2016
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 14 points more takedown defence than Yahya.
  • Has finished 3 of 7 UFC wins.
28-12-1
Record
11-3
32
Age
−7 yr25
+1″5' 6"
Height
5' 5"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+710
UFC bouts
3
3/743% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Constrictor Team
Gym
Team Alpha Male Japan
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Yokohama, Kanagawa
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 Yahya3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY33%1 of 1LEGS67%2 of 3
Michinori Tanaka13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 7BODY8%1 of 1LEGS54%7 of 9
3 of 8
Sig.
strikes
13 of 17
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
1:55
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Yahya firstFabio Alves10–9Marco Aurelio Borges10–9Hallison Pontes10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Rani Yahya5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 5BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
Michinori Tanaka1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 8
Sig.
strikes
1 of 7
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:58
Control
1:23
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstFabio Alves10–9Marco Aurelio Borges10–9Hallison Pontes10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rani Yahya2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Michinori Tanaka6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 9BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 2
Sig.
strikes
6 of 10
2 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:39
Control
2:36
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Yahya firstFabio Alves9–10Marco Aurelio Borges9–10Hallison Pontes9–10

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 · Fernando Portella
Rani YahyaMichinori Tanaka
Official totals — Rani Yahya first
JudgeTotal
Fabio Alves2.3 avg spread · 39% wide29–28
Marco Aurelio Borges29–28
Hallison Pontes2.0 avg spread · 40% 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 — 14 scored, Rani Yahya first · unofficial

Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com29–28
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AForum.com.br29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yahya · 45%30-27 Yahya · 25%29-28 Tanaka · 20%30-28 Yahya · 5%

20 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
2.40 / 15m
9.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.32 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
38%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Michinori Tanaka

2.40takedowns / 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↓ −1.5pp
open 50.9%close 49.5%
Michinori Tanaka↑ +1.5pp
open 49.1%close 50.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rani Yahya opened at 50.9% and closed at 49.5% (−1.5pp), with Michinori Tanaka 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-125-10750.9%49.5%−1.5pp
Michinori Tanaka-115-11249.1%50.5%+1.5pp
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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