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History · 2019 · UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 · Gabriel Benitez vs Sodiq Yusuff
From the tape · 17 Aug 2019

Gabriel Benitez vs Sodiq Yusuff

UFC 241: Cormier vs. Miocic 2 · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Sodiq Yusuff beat Gabriel Benitez

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
4:14
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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.

GB
Red corner GabrielBenitez“Moggly”American Kickboxing Academy · Tijuana, Baja California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SodiqYusuff“Super”Team Lloyd Irvin · Camp Springs, Maryland
Featherweight3 rounds17 Aug 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Is 8 points more accurate striking than Benitez.
23-13
Record
13-5
31
Age
−5 yr26
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
71″
Reach
71″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+57
UFC bouts
2
3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
American Kickboxing Academy
Gym
Team Lloyd Irvin
Tijuana, Baja California
From
Camp Springs, Maryland
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:14 of action⚡ 1 KD YusuffEnded 4:14
Gabriel Benitez24 sig landed
HEAD46%11 of 55BODY17%4 of 8LEGS38%9 of 9
Sodiq Yusuff34 sig landed
HEAD74%25 of 70BODY12%4 of 4LEGS15%5 of 5
24 of 72
Sig.
strikes
34 of 79
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 4

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Sodiq Yusuff

Round
1
Clock
4:14
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Gabriel Benitez

0.22takedowns / 15 min
0.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.36 / 15m
0.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.57 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
23%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Sodiq Yusuff

0.36takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Gabriel Benitez→ no move
open 29.0%close 28.6%
Sodiq Yusuff→ no move
open 71.0%close 71.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Gabriel Benitez opened at 29.0% and closed at 28.6% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Gabriel Benitez22523729.0%28.6%−0.4pp
Sodiq Yusuff-305-28871.0%71.4%+0.4pp
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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