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History · 2023 · UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Tyson Pedro vs Anton Turkalj
From the tape · 9 Sep 2023

Tyson Pedro vs Anton Turkalj

UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result

Tyson Pedro beat Anton Turkalj

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
2:12
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 TysonPedroLions High Performance Centre · Sydney, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
AT
Blue corner AntonTurkalj“The Pleasure Man”GBG MMA · Gothenburg
Light Heavyweight3 rounds9 Sep 2023
The story going in
  • Every one of Pedro’s 5 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 9 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Turkalj.
  • Averages 4.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pedro.
10-5
Record
8-4
31
Age
−4 yr27
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
+1″79″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+79
UFC bouts
2
Lions High Performance Centre
Gym
GBG MMA
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Gothenburg
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

1 round of tape

Round 12:12 of action⚡ 1 KD PedroEnded 2:12
Tyson Pedro16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 24BODY6%1 of 2LEGS19%3 of 3
Anton Turkalj8 sig landed
HEAD38%3 of 13BODY12%1 of 1LEGS50%4 of 10
16 of 29
Sig.
strikes
8 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 2Ground 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

Tyson Pedro

Round
1
Clock
2:12
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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Tyson Pedro

0.76takedowns / 15 min
0.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.98 / 15m
2.53 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
12.15 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
41%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Anton Turkalj

4.98takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Tyson Pedro↓ −4.2pp
open 52.0%close 47.9%
Anton Turkalj↑ +4.2pp
open 48.0%close 52.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tyson Pedro opened at 52.0% and closed at 47.9% (−4.2pp), with Anton Turkalj 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
Tyson Pedro-125-10152.0%47.9%−4.2pp
Anton Turkalj-105-12148.0%52.1%+4.2pp
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% · dated 2023-09-10 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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