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Events · UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza · Sodiq Yusuff vs Edson Barboza
From the tape · 14 Oct 2023

Sodiq Yusuff vs Edson Barboza

UFC Fight Night: Yusuff vs. Barboza · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Edson Barboza beat Sodiq Yusuff

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · 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 SodiqYusuff“Super”Team Lloyd Irvin · Camp Springs, Maryland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner EdsonBarboza“Junior”American Top Team · Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
Featherweight5 rounds14 Oct 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 17 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 28 UFC bouts deep — 21 more than Yusuff.
13-5
Record
24-15
−7 yr30
Age
37
5' 9"
Height
+2″5' 11"
71″
Reach
+4″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
7
UFC bouts
+2128
3/650% of wins
Finishes
+3%9/1753% of wins
Team Lloyd Irvin
Gym
American Top Team
Camp Springs, Maryland
From
Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro
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⚡ 1 KD Yusuff
Sodiq Yusuff42 sig landed
HEAD93%39 of 77BODY7%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Edson Barboza13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 19BODY38%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
42 of 80
Sig.
strikes
13 of 25
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:15
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 4Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDerek Cleary10–8Sal D'Amato10–8Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sodiq Yusuff42 sig landed
HEAD57%24 of 56BODY7%3 of 6LEGS36%15 of 17
Edson Barboza31 sig landed
HEAD23%7 of 31BODY74%23 of 31LEGS3%1 of 3
42 of 79
Sig.
strikes
31 of 65
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:29
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 34Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Barboza
Sodiq Yusuff29 sig landed
HEAD59%17 of 42BODY17%5 of 7LEGS24%7 of 9
Edson Barboza32 sig landed
HEAD44%14 of 44BODY50%16 of 20LEGS6%2 of 4
29 of 58
Sig.
strikes
32 of 68
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 45:00 of action
Sodiq Yusuff35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 64BODY3%1 of 2LEGS29%10 of 13
Edson Barboza47 sig landed
HEAD51%24 of 63BODY47%22 of 26LEGS2%1 of 1
35 of 79
Sig.
strikes
47 of 90
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:22
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 35Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sodiq Yusuff30 sig landed
HEAD73%22 of 45BODY7%2 of 2LEGS20%6 of 8
Edson Barboza41 sig landed
HEAD44%18 of 47BODY56%23 of 29LEGS0%0 landed
30 of 55
Sig.
strikes
41 of 76
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:00
Control
1:38
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 13Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yusuff firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Sodiq YusuffEdson Barboza
Official totals — Sodiq Yusuff first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide46–48
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide46–48
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide46–49

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 — 20 scored, Sodiq Yusuff first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com45–48
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com45–48
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com45–48
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com45–48
Scott Fontana New York Post45–48
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com45–48
Nick Baldwin theScore46–48
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks46–48
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com46–48
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–48
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com46–48
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com46–48
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com46–48
Jake Noecker Cageside Press46–48
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas46–48
MM AMania.com46–48
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com45–47
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–47
Bloody Elbow.com47–47
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com47–47

Fan vote · unofficial

48-46 Barboza · 43%48-45 Barboza · 21%47-46 Barboza · 12%47-45 Barboza · 3%

314 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.

Sodiq Yusuff

0.36takedowns / 15 min
0.36 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.43 / 15m
1.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.86 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
50%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Edson Barboza

0.43takedowns / 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.

Sodiq Yusuff↑ +2.0pp
open 59.4%close 61.4%
Edson Barboza↓ −2.0pp
open 40.6%close 38.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sodiq Yusuff opened at 59.4% and closed at 61.4% (+2.0pp), with Edson Barboza 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
Sodiq Yusuff-175-18359.4%61.4%+2.0pp
Edson Barboza13014640.6%38.6%−2.0pp
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 2023-10-15 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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