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Events · UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate · Rani Yahya vs Kyung Ho Kang
From the tape · 20 Nov 2021

Rani Yahya vs Kyung Ho Kang

UFC Fight Night: Vieira vs. Tate · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Rani Yahya beat Kyung Ho Kang

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.

RY
Red corner RaniYahyaConstrictor Team · Brasilia, Federal District
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Kyung HoKang“Mr. Perfect”Busan Team MAD · Busan, Yeongnam
Bantamweight3 rounds20 Nov 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 18 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Kang.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
28-12-1
Record
19-11
37
Age
−3 yr34
5' 6"
Height
+3″5' 9"
67″
Reach
+6″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+918
UFC bouts
9
+8%7/1258% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
Constrictor Team
Gym
Busan Team MAD
Brasilia, Federal District
From
Busan, Yeongnam
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⚡ 1 KD Kang
Rani Yahya21 sig landed
HEAD19%4 of 15BODY5%1 of 1LEGS76%16 of 19
Kyung Ho Kang33 sig landed
HEAD85%28 of 55BODY3%1 of 2LEGS12%4 of 4
21 of 35
Sig.
strikes
33 of 61
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:24
Control
0:57
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Yahya firstDouglas Crosby9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Bryan Miner9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Rani Yahya1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Kyung Ho Kang4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%2 of 2
1 of 2
Sig.
strikes
4 of 4
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:48
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstDouglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rani Yahya5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%2 of 2
Kyung Ho Kang6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 16BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 11
Sig.
strikes
6 of 17
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:24
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yahya firstDouglas Crosby10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Bryan Miner10–9

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
Rani YahyaKyung Ho Kang
Official totals — Rani Yahya first
JudgeTotal
Douglas Crosby29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% 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 — 11 scored, Rani Yahya first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Lev Pisarsky Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yahya · 46%29-27 Yahya · 39%29-28 Kang · 12%30-27 Kang · 2%

41 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.

Rani Yahya

2.73takedowns / 15 min
2.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
9.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.94 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
50%
1.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Kyung Ho Kang

1.97takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Rani Yahya vs Kyung Ho Kang.

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