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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez · Song Yadong vs Chris Gutierrez
From the tape · 9 Dec 2023

Song Yadong vs Chris Gutierrez

UFC Fight Night: Song vs. Gutierrez · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Song Yadong beat Chris Gutierrez

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
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.

Red corner SongYadong“Kung Fu Kid”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ChrisGutierrez“El Guapo”Factory X · Greenville, Texas
Bantamweight5 rounds9 Dec 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Is 14 points more accurate striking than Yadong.
24-9-1
Record
22-7-2
−6 yr26
Age
32
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
67″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+112
UFC bouts
11
+29%6/967% of wins
Finishes
3/838% of wins
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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
Song Yadong17 sig landed
HEAD18%3 of 14BODY12%2 of 3LEGS71%12 of 17
Chris Gutierrez29 sig landed
HEAD3%1 of 15BODY0%0 of 1LEGS97%28 of 33
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
29 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Song Yadong14 sig landed
HEAD14%2 of 14BODY14%2 of 4LEGS71%10 of 15
Chris Gutierrez25 sig landed
HEAD12%3 of 8BODY0%0 of 2LEGS88%22 of 27
14 of 33
Sig.
strikes
25 of 37
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:52
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of action
Song Yadong17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 26BODY35%6 of 10LEGS41%7 of 11
Chris Gutierrez24 sig landed
HEAD8%2 of 11BODY12%3 of 12LEGS79%19 of 24
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
24 of 47
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 45:00 of action
Song Yadong12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 22BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Chris Gutierrez8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS75%6 of 6
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
8 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:15
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Song Yadong17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 24BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
Chris Gutierrez1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
17 of 26
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
4:41
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yadong firstSal D'Amato10–8Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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
Song YadongChris Gutierrez
Official totals — Song Yadong first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide50–44
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide50–45
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide50–45

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 — 17 scored, Song Yadong first · unofficial

Tyler Treese Sherdog.com50–45
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com50–45
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com50–45
Combat Press.com50–45
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com50–45
Jake Noecker Cageside Press50–45
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com50–45
Phil Murphy ESPN50–45
MM AJunkie.com50–45
Mike Heck MMAFighting.com50–45
Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Bloody Elbow.com49–46
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com49–46
Scott Fontana New York Post49–46

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Yadong · 42%50-44 Yadong · 16%49-46 Yadong · 14%50-43 Yadong · 7%48-47 Yadong · 7%

71 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.

Song Yadong

0.78takedowns / 15 min
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.00 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
30%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Chris Gutierrez

0.30takedowns / 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.

Song Yadongclose only
no opening line on recordclose 75.6%
Chris Gutierrezclose only
no opening line on recordclose 24.4%
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 75.6%, Chris Gutierrez 24.4%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Song Yadong-37475.6%
Chris Gutierrez27029224.4%
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 2023-12-10 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 · 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.
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