Round 1
11 of 28
Sig.
strikes
strikes
12 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 2
0:12
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
From the tape · 29 Apr 2023
Song Yadong vs Ricky Simon
UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Simon · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result
Song Yadong beat Ricky Simon
BantamweightMainReferee · 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.
VSOn the tape
The story going in
- Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
- Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
- Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Simon.
- Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
24-9-1
Record
22-7-1
−5 yr25
Age
30
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+111
UFC bouts
10
+12%5/862% of wins
Finishes
4/850% of wins
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
5 rounds of tape
Round 2
25 of 57
Sig.
strikes
strikes
15 of 36
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
0:39
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 3
Round 3
20 of 57
Sig.
strikes
strikes
13 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 4⚡ 1 KD Yadong
27 of 56
Sig.
strikes
strikes
15 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 3
0:02
Control
0:01
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 5⚡ 1 KD YadongEnded 1:10
22 of 30
Sig.
strikes
strikes
5 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 15
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
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.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Song Yadong
Round
5
Clock
1:10
Method
KO/TKO
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.
Takedowns
Takedowns
The level change — head to head
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Song Yadong
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.49 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.95 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
41%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m
73%
TD DEFENCE
76%
Ricky Simon
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.
Song Yadongclose only
no opening line on recordclose 44.3%
Ricky Simonclose only
no opening line on recordclose 55.7%
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: Song Yadong 44.3%, Ricky Simon 55.7%, vig removed.
Show the numbers
| Corner | Open (US) | Close (US) | Open % | Close % | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Song Yadong | — | 116 | — | 44.3% | — |
| Ricky Simon | -140 | -139 | — | 55.7% | — |
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 Song Yadong, 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.