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History · 2019 · UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva · Rani Yahya vs Ricky Simon
From the tape · 9 Feb 2019

Rani Yahya vs Ricky Simon

UFC 234: Adesanya vs. Silva · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Result

Ricky Simon beat Rani Yahya

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Steve Perceval

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
Blue corner RickySimonAmerican Top Team Portland · Vancouver, Washington
Bantamweight3 rounds9 Feb 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 47 points more takedown defence than Yahya.
28-12-1
Record
22-7-1
34
Age
−8 yr26
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1315
UFC bouts
2
6/1155% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Constrictor Team
Gym
American Top Team Portland
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Vancouver, Washington
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⚡ 2 KD Simon
Rani Yahya21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 46BODY19%4 of 7LEGS29%6 of 9
Ricky Simon20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 39BODY25%5 of 7LEGS15%3 of 3
21 of 62
Sig.
strikes
20 of 49
0 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:45
0
Knock-
downs
2
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMark Craig9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rani Yahya19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 72BODY26%5 of 6LEGS11%2 of 4
Ricky Simon11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 37BODY18%2 of 5LEGS9%1 of 1
19 of 82
Sig.
strikes
11 of 43
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
1:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMark Craig9–10Albert Shen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rani Yahya7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 41BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Ricky Simon23 sig landed
HEAD87%20 of 40BODY9%2 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
7 of 42
Sig.
strikes
23 of 45
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
2:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Yahya firstMark Craig9–10Albert Shen9–10

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 · Steve Perceval
Rani YahyaRicky Simon
Official totals — Rani Yahya first
JudgeTotal
Mark Craig27–30
Albert Shen2.4 avg spread · 61% wide27–30

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 — 21 scored, Rani Yahya first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com26–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com26–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com26–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com26–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Mike Straus MMAJA27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan FanSided.com27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–29
Nolan King FloCombat27–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Simon · 37%30-27 Simon · 33%30-26 Simon · 15%29-27 Simon · 7%29-28 Yahya · 4%

27 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
4.49 / 15m
9.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.95 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
41%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Ricky Simon

4.49takedowns / 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↓ −9.5pp
open 59.9%close 50.4%
Ricky Simon↑ +9.5pp
open 40.1%close 49.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rani Yahya opened at 59.9% and closed at 50.4% (−9.5pp), with Ricky Simon 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-175-11259.9%50.4%−9.5pp
Ricky Simon135-10840.1%49.6%+9.5pp
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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