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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2 · Pingyuan Liu vs Martin Day
From the tape · 24 Nov 2018

Pingyuan Liu vs Martin Day

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Ngannou 2 · Beijing, China
Result

Pingyuan Liu beat Martin Day

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

PL
Red corner PingyuanLiuTeam Alpha Male · Zhengzhou, Henan
VSOn the tape
MD
Blue corner MartinDay“The Spartan”Hawaii Elite MMA · Kailua, Hawaii
Bantamweight3 rounds24 Nov 2018
13-7
Record
8-6
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Hawaii Elite MMA
Zhengzhou, Henan
From
Kailua, Hawaii
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 action2 sub attempts
Pingyuan Liu17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 42BODY12%2 of 7LEGS12%2 of 2
Martin Day28 sig landed
HEAD43%12 of 33BODY43%12 of 19LEGS14%4 of 4
17 of 51
Sig.
strikes
28 of 56
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:00
Control
1:05
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 3
Judges · this round · Liu firstMark Craig10–9Barry Foley9–10Garth Harriman10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Day
Pingyuan Liu26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 44BODY23%6 of 9LEGS8%2 of 2
Martin Day48 sig landed
HEAD54%26 of 62BODY40%19 of 25LEGS6%3 of 3
26 of 55
Sig.
strikes
48 of 90
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:32
Control
0:38
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 41Clinch 3Ground 4
Judges · this round · Liu firstMark Craig9–10Barry Foley9–10Garth Harriman9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Liu2 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Pingyuan Liu12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 25BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
Martin Day24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 25BODY29%7 of 12LEGS4%1 of 1
12 of 27
Sig.
strikes
24 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:13
Control
0:29
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Liu firstMark Craig10–9Barry Foley10–9Garth Harriman10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Pingyuan LiuMartin Day
Official totals — Pingyuan Liu first
JudgeTotal
Mark Craig29–28
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide28–29
Garth Harriman1.9 avg spread · 46% 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 — 13 scored, Pingyuan Liu first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Cory Braiterman MMAMania.com29–29
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br28–29
Shawn Bitter MMA- Today.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Day · 57%29-28 Pingyuan · 38%30-27 Day · 3%

37 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

Pingyuan Liu

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.25takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.25 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −1.83 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS3
0.25 / 15m−1.83 vs field
ATTEMPTS9
1.25 / 15m−4.29 vs field
ACCURACY15
20%−21pp vs field
SUB ATT71
1.00 / 15m−0.07 vs field

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.

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.

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.

Pingyuan Liu↓ −6.6pp
open 69.3%close 62.7%
Martin Day↑ +6.6pp
open 30.7%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Pingyuan Liu opened at 69.3% and closed at 62.7% (−6.6pp), with Martin Day 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
Pingyuan Liu-285-18469.3%62.7%−6.6pp
Martin Day20516030.7%37.3%+6.6pp
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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