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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Ji Yeon Kim vs Melinda Fabian
From the tape · 23 Jun 2018

Ji Yeon Kim vs Melinda Fabian

UFC Fight Night: Cowboy vs. Edwards · Kallang, Singapore
Result

Ji Yeon Kim beat Melinda Fabian

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Thomas Fan

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 Ji YeonKim“Firefist”Syndicate MMA · Incheon
VSOn the tape
MF
Blue corner MelindaFabianBudapest Top Team · Budapest
Women's Flyweight3 rounds23 Jun 2018
The story going in
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Fabian.
  • Carries 50 points more takedown defence than Kim.
9-7-2
Record
4-4-2
−2 yr28
Age
30
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+6″72″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
Syndicate MMA
Gym
Budapest Top Team
Incheon
From
Budapest
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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
Ji Yeon Kim33 sig landed
HEAD73%24 of 103BODY21%7 of 7LEGS6%2 of 3
Melinda Fabian34 sig landed
HEAD47%16 of 60BODY15%5 of 6LEGS38%13 of 13
33 of 113
Sig.
strikes
34 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:00
Distance 27Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kim firstBen Cartlidge10–9Garth Harriman9–10Charlie Keech9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ji Yeon Kim20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 57BODY15%3 of 3LEGS10%2 of 2
Melinda Fabian17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 32BODY6%1 of 4LEGS41%7 of 12
20 of 62
Sig.
strikes
17 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:31
Control
0:02
Distance 16Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kim firstBen Cartlidge10–9Garth Harriman10–9Charlie Keech10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ji Yeon Kim20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 45BODY60%12 of 19LEGS5%1 of 2
Melinda Fabian21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 35BODY24%5 of 8LEGS10%2 of 3
20 of 66
Sig.
strikes
21 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 11Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kim firstBen Cartlidge9–10Garth Harriman10–9Charlie Keech9–10

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 · Thomas Fan
Ji Yeon KimMelinda Fabian
Official totals — Ji Yeon Kim first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 12 scored, Ji Yeon Kim first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Gabriel Carvalho MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Milan Ordonez BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Anton Tabuena BloodyElbow.com29–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kim · 50%29-28 Kim · 44%29-28 Fabian · 6%

16 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.

Ji Yeon Kim

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
n/a
n/a
ACCURACY
n/a
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Melinda Fabian

0.00takedowns / 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 (3.58 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Women's Flyweight

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.

Ji Yeon Kim↓ −13.7pp
open 75.2%close 61.6%
Melinda Fabian↑ +13.7pp
open 24.8%close 38.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ji Yeon Kim opened at 75.2% and closed at 61.6% (−13.7pp), with Melinda Fabian 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
Ji Yeon Kim-400-17575.2%61.6%−13.7pp
Melinda Fabian28015224.8%38.4%+13.7pp
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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