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History · 2022 · UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev · Petr Yan vs Sean O'Malley
From the tape · 22 Oct 2022

Petr Yan vs Sean O'Malley

UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Sean O'Malley beat Petr Yan

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 PetrYan“No Mercy”Archangel Michael Club · Yekaterinburg, Omsk
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SeanO'Malley“Suga”Red Hawk Academy · Helena, Montana
Bantamweight3 rounds22 Oct 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than O'Malley.
20-5
Record
20-3
29
Age
−2 yr27
5' 7"
Height
+4″5' 11"
67″
Reach
+5″72″
Switch
Stance
Switch
+110
UFC bouts
9
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+21%5/771% of wins
Archangel Michael Club
Gym
Red Hawk Academy
Yekaterinburg, Omsk
From
Helena, Montana
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
Petr Yan19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 15BODY16%3 of 5LEGS58%11 of 11
Sean O'Malley23 sig landed
HEAD57%13 of 37BODY13%3 of 9LEGS30%7 of 9
19 of 31
Sig.
strikes
23 of 55
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:10
Control
0:02
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Petr Yan24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 25BODY29%7 of 9LEGS21%5 of 5
Sean O'Malley21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 32BODY5%1 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
24 of 39
Sig.
strikes
21 of 37
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:42
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Petr Yan15 sig landed
HEAD47%7 of 17BODY20%3 of 4LEGS33%5 of 5
Sean O'Malley40 sig landed
HEAD82%33 of 63BODY5%2 of 3LEGS12%5 of 5
15 of 26
Sig.
strikes
40 of 71
2 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:52
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Vito Paolillo9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Petr YanSean O'Malley
Official totals — Petr Yan first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% 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 — 26 scored, Petr Yan first · unofficial

Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Davis29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
Dan Urban Couchside Judges29–28
Alex Behunin Cageside Press29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
E. Casey Leydon30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Jake Noecker BetQL30–27
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com30–27
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
John Brannigan Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yan · 46%29-28 O'Malley · 24%30-27 Yan · 24%30-28 Yan · 1%

6,349 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.

Petr Yan

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.24 / 15m
3.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.57 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
42%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Sean O'Malley

0.24takedowns / 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.

Petr Yanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 72.9%
Sean O'Malleyclose only
no opening line on recordclose 27.1%
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: Petr Yan 72.9%, Sean O'Malley 27.1%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Petr Yan-250-32372.9%
Sean O'Malley25227.1%
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 Sean Omalley, 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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