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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris · Song Yadong vs Marlon Vera
From the tape · 16 May 2020

Song Yadong vs Marlon Vera

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Song Yadong beat Marlon Vera

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 SongYadong“Kung Fu Kid”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarlonVera“Chito”Team Oyama · Chone, Manabi
Featherweight3 rounds16 May 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 8 of 9 UFC wins.
24-9-1
Record
23-12-1
−5 yr22
Age
27
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
67″
Reach
+3″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
5
UFC bouts
+813
3/475% of wins
Finishes
+14%8/989% of wins
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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
Song Yadong17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 28BODY35%6 of 8LEGS24%4 of 4
Marlon Vera21 sig landed
HEAD5%1 of 6BODY43%9 of 12LEGS52%11 of 14
17 of 40
Sig.
strikes
21 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:39
Control
0:38
Distance 9Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Howard Reichbach10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Song Yadong44 sig landed
HEAD75%33 of 74BODY11%5 of 8LEGS14%6 of 7
Marlon Vera37 sig landed
HEAD54%20 of 53BODY30%11 of 15LEGS16%6 of 6
44 of 89
Sig.
strikes
37 of 74
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:26
Distance 39Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Howard Reichbach10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Song Yadong40 sig landed
HEAD98%39 of 71BODY2%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Marlon Vera34 sig landed
HEAD59%20 of 39BODY26%9 of 13LEGS15%5 of 6
40 of 72
Sig.
strikes
34 of 58
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:18
Control
2:11
Distance 31Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 6Ground 4
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato9–10Howard Reichbach9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Song YadongMarlon Vera
Official totals — Song Yadong first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Howard Reichbach29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 17 scored, Song Yadong first · unofficial

MM AMania.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Vera · 52%29-28 Yadong · 37%30-27 Vera · 6%30-27 Yadong · 1%

739 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.

Song Yadong

0.78takedowns / 15 min
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.47 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.21 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
39%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Marlon Vera

0.47takedowns / 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.

Song Yadongclose only
no opening line on recordclose 64.1%
Marlon Veraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Song Yadong 64.1%, Marlon Vera 35.9%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Song Yadong-19764.1%
Marlon Vera15016935.9%
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 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Song Yadong, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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