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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · SeungWoo Choi vs Youssef Zalal
From the tape · 6 Feb 2021

SeungWoo Choi vs Youssef Zalal

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

SeungWoo Choi beat Youssef Zalal

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 SeungWooChoi“Sting”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner YoussefZalal“The Moroccan Devil”Factory X · Englewood, Colorado
Featherweight3 rounds6 Feb 2021
The story going in
  • Carries 15 points more takedown defence than Zalal.
  • Carries 17 points more striking defence than Choi.
11-8
Record
18-6-1
28
Age
−4 yr24
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
3
UFC bouts
+14
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/30% 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
SeungWoo Choi13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 42BODY31%4 of 6LEGS15%2 of 6
Youssef Zalal12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 16BODY50%6 of 6LEGS8%1 of 2
13 of 54
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:13
Control
1:33
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Choi firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
SeungWoo Choi19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 31BODY16%3 of 3LEGS11%2 of 3
Youssef Zalal6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 11BODY17%1 of 2LEGS17%1 of 1
19 of 37
Sig.
strikes
6 of 14
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:06
Control
1:52
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 8Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Choi firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
SeungWoo Choi9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 11BODY33%3 of 4LEGS22%2 of 3
Youssef Zalal5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 7BODY40%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 18
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
0 of 1
Take-
downs
3 of 5
2:20
Control
1:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Choi firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
SeungWoo ChoiYoussef Zalal
Official totals — SeungWoo Choi first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% 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 — 15 scored, SeungWoo Choi first · unofficial

Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Choi · 56%30-27 Choi · 26%29-28 Zalal · 15%30-27 Zalal · 3%

39 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.

SeungWoo Choi

0.83takedowns / 15 min
0.83 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.84 / 15m
1.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
54%
ACCURACY
31%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Youssef Zalal

1.84takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

SeungWoo Choiclose only
no opening line on recordclose 32.4%
Youssef Zalalclose only
no opening line on recordclose 67.6%
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: SeungWoo Choi 32.4%, Youssef Zalal 67.6%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
SeungWoo Choi19732.4%
Youssef Zalal-150-23767.6%
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 Seung Woo Choi, 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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