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History · 2022 · UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan
From the tape · 9 Apr 2022

Aljamain Sterling vs Petr Yan

UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Aljamain Sterling beat Petr Yan

Method
Decision - Split
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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 AljamainSterling“Funk Master”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Cortland, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PetrYan“No Mercy”Archangel Michael Club · Yekaterinburg, Omsk
Bantamweight Title5 rounds9 Apr 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Carries 42 points more takedown defence than Sterling.
26-5
Record
20-5
32
Age
−3 yr29
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
+4″71″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+615
UFC bouts
9
5/1242% of wins
Finishes
+8%4/850% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Archangel Michael Club
Cortland, New York
From
Yekaterinburg, Omsk
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 22BODY58%11 of 14LEGS16%3 of 4
Petr Yan13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 20BODY31%4 of 4LEGS15%2 of 2
19 of 40
Sig.
strikes
13 of 26
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee9–10Eliseo Rodriguez10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling17 sig landed
HEAD82%14 of 20BODY6%1 of 6LEGS12%2 of 3
Petr Yan4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 2BODY25%1 of 1LEGS50%2 of 2
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
4 of 5
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:50
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling6 sig landed
HEAD33%2 of 8BODY67%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Petr Yan8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 9BODY25%2 of 2LEGS50%4 of 4
6 of 13
Sig.
strikes
8 of 15
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:43
Control
0:07
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Eliseo Rodriguez10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Aljamain Sterling8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 4BODY75%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Petr Yan18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 17BODY22%4 of 4LEGS22%4 of 4
8 of 10
Sig.
strikes
18 of 25
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
3:51
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 4Ground 5
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Eliseo Rodriguez9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Aljamain Sterling12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 12BODY33%4 of 4LEGS17%2 of 2
Petr Yan20 sig landed
HEAD60%12 of 23BODY30%6 of 7LEGS10%2 of 2
12 of 18
Sig.
strikes
20 of 32
0 of 10
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:58
Control
1:54
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 4
Judges · this round · Sterling firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Eliseo Rodriguez9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Keith Peterson
Aljamain SterlingPetr Yan
Official totals — Aljamain Sterling first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide48–47
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide47–48
Eliseo Rodriguez48–47

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 — 18 scored, Aljamain Sterling first · unofficial

Drake Riggs MMAMania.com48–45
Nick Baldwin theScore48–46
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com48–46
Combat Press.com48–46
Scott Fontana New York Post48–46
MM AMania.com48–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–46
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com48–46
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com48–46
MM AJunkie.com48–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com48–47
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com47–47
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com47–47
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland47–47
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com47–47
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com47–47
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks47–48
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv47–48

Fan vote · unofficial

48-47 Yan · 44%48-46 Sterling · 19%48-47 Sterling · 19%

4,585 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.

Aljamain Sterling

2.54takedowns / 15 min
2.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.70 / 15m
7.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.47 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
49%
0.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Petr Yan

1.70takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Aljamain Sterling↓ −2.4pp
open 25.0%close 22.6%
Petr Yan↑ +2.4pp
open 75.0%close 77.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Aljamain Sterling opened at 25.0% and closed at 22.6% (−2.4pp), with Petr Yan 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
Aljamain Sterling28532425.0%22.6%−2.4pp
Petr Yan-350-41975.0%77.4%+2.4pp
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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