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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai · Sean Woodson vs Youssef Zalal
From the tape · 5 Jun 2021

Sean Woodson vs Youssef Zalal

UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Sakai · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Sean Woodson beat Youssef Zalal

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 SeanWoodson“The Sniper”Wolves' Den Training Center · St. Louis, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner YoussefZalal“The Moroccan Devil”Factory X · Englewood, Colorado
Featherweight3 rounds5 Jun 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 2.8 more significant strikes a minute than Zalal.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Woodson.
14-2-1
Record
18-6-1
28
Age
−4 yr24
+4″6' 2"
Height
5' 10"
+6″78″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
2
UFC bouts
+35
0/10% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
Wolves' Den Training Center
Gym
Factory X
St. Louis, Missouri
From
Englewood, Colorado
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
Sean Woodson11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 26BODY18%2 of 6LEGS45%5 of 6
Youssef Zalal17 sig landed
HEAD35%6 of 19BODY18%3 of 4LEGS47%8 of 8
11 of 38
Sig.
strikes
17 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 6
0:14
Control
1:46
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodson firstJunichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Sean Woodson15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 35BODY20%3 of 4LEGS33%5 of 7
Youssef Zalal15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 26BODY20%3 of 4LEGS27%4 of 4
15 of 46
Sig.
strikes
15 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:10
Control
1:46
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodson firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Sean Woodson14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 27BODY7%1 of 2LEGS7%1 of 3
Youssef Zalal10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 17BODY30%3 of 3LEGS30%3 of 4
14 of 32
Sig.
strikes
10 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 8
0:39
Control
2:49
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Woodson firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Sean WoodsonYoussef Zalal
Official totals — Sean Woodson first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 12 scored, Sean Woodson first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Woodson · 67%29-28 Zalal · 19%30-27 Woodson · 6%30-26 Woodson · 4%30-27 Zalal · 4%

52 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.

Sean Woodson

0.58takedowns / 15 min
0.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.84 / 15m
1.05 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
31%
0.30 / 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.

Sean Woodson↑ +7.7pp
open 51.1%close 58.8%
Youssef Zalal↓ −7.7pp
open 48.9%close 41.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sean Woodson opened at 51.1% and closed at 58.8% (+7.7pp), with Youssef Zalal 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
Sean Woodson-115-15951.1%58.8%+7.7pp
Youssef Zalal-10513248.9%41.2%−7.7pp
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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