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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz · Youssef Zalal vs Da'Mon Blackshear
From the tape · 13 Aug 2022

Youssef Zalal vs Da'Mon Blackshear

UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Cruz · San Diego, California, USA
Result

No winner recorded The official record carries no winner for this bout — a draw, a no-contest or an overturned result.

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 YoussefZalal“The Moroccan Devil”Factory X · Englewood, Colorado
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Da'MonBlackshear“The Monster”Kill Cliff FC · Fayetteville, North Carolina
Bantamweight3 rounds13 Aug 2022
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Zalal.
  • Carries 12 points more striking defence than Blackshear.
18-6-1
Record
17-8-1
−3 yr25
Age
28
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
72″
Reach
72″
Switch
Stance
Switch
Factory X
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Englewood, Colorado
From
Fayetteville, North Carolina
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Youssef Zalal1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
Da'Mon Blackshear6 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%6 of 9
1 of 8
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:22
Control
0:43
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Youssef Zalal3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 4BODY33%1 of 1LEGS33%1 of 1
Da'Mon Blackshear2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 6
Sig.
strikes
2 of 3
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:35
Control
3:08
1
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Youssef Zalal59 sig landed
HEAD71%42 of 116BODY20%12 of 13LEGS8%5 of 7
Da'Mon Blackshear19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 36BODY26%5 of 10LEGS26%5 of 7
59 of 136
Sig.
strikes
19 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:55
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 39Clinch 4Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Majority

Referee · Herb Dean
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 128–29
Judge 228–28
Judge 328–28

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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.

Youssef Zalal

1.84takedowns / 15 min
1.84 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.48 / 15m
5.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.48 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
33%
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Da'Mon Blackshear

1.48takedowns / 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.

Youssef Zalal↓ −5.8pp
open 60.7%close 54.8%
Da'Mon Blackshear↑ +5.8pp
open 39.3%close 45.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Youssef Zalal opened at 60.7% and closed at 54.8% (−5.8pp), with Da'Mon Blackshear 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
Youssef Zalal-170-13460.7%54.8%−5.8pp
Da'Mon Blackshear14511239.3%45.2%+5.8pp
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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