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History · 2021 · UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Song Yadong vs Kyler Phillips
From the tape · 6 Mar 2021

Song Yadong vs Kyler Phillips

UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Kyler Phillips beat Song Yadong

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 KylerPhillips“The Matrix”
Bantamweight3 rounds6 Mar 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 6 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Phillips.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Yadong.
24-9-1
Record
12-5
−2 yr23
Age
25
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
67″
Reach
+5″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+46
UFC bouts
2
3/560% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
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
Song Yadong21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 29BODY29%6 of 8LEGS10%2 of 2
Kyler Phillips27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 40BODY41%11 of 15LEGS7%2 of 4
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
27 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:05
Control
0:27
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Yadong firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Song Yadong20 sig landed
HEAD65%13 of 45BODY35%7 of 15LEGS0%0 of 1
Kyler Phillips19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 41BODY16%3 of 4LEGS11%2 of 2
20 of 61
Sig.
strikes
19 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:41
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Yadong firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Song Yadong26 sig landed
HEAD50%13 of 46BODY27%7 of 9LEGS23%6 of 6
Kyler Phillips13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 31BODY15%2 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
26 of 61
Sig.
strikes
13 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:01
Control
0:28
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Song YadongKyler Phillips
Official totals — Song Yadong first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29

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

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Phillips · 77%29-28 Yadong · 14%30-27 Phillips · 1%

70 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
2.82 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.00 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
47%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Kyler Phillips

2.82takedowns / 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 62.9%
Kyler Phillipsclose only
no opening line on recordclose 37.1%
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 62.9%, Kyler Phillips 37.1%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Song Yadong-19362.9%
Kyler Phillips16515737.1%
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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