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Events · UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Serhiy Sidey vs Ramon Taveras
From the tape · 20 Jan 2024

Serhiy Sidey vs Ramon Taveras

UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Result

Ramon Taveras beat Serhiy Sidey

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Todd Ronald Anderson

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 SerhiySideyBurlington Training Centre · Burlington, Ontario
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RamonTaveras“The Savage”Bulldog Boxing · Jacksonville, Florida
Bantamweight3 rounds20 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Averages 1.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Taveras.
  • Carries 52 points more takedown defence than Sidey.
12-2
Record
10-4
−3 yr27
Age
30
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
Burlington Training Centre
Gym
Bulldog Boxing
Burlington, Ontario
From
Jacksonville, Florida
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
Serhiy Sidey17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 36BODY29%5 of 10LEGS29%5 of 5
Ramon Taveras22 sig landed
HEAD50%11 of 33BODY23%5 of 6LEGS27%6 of 6
17 of 51
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sidey firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10Saleem Haniff9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Taveras
Serhiy Sidey39 sig landed
HEAD77%30 of 94BODY21%8 of 13LEGS3%1 of 1
Ramon Taveras24 sig landed
HEAD96%23 of 57BODY4%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 108
Sig.
strikes
24 of 58
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:18
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 33Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Sidey firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón9–10Saleem Haniff10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Serhiy Sidey23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 51BODY30%7 of 13LEGS9%2 of 3
Ramon Taveras16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 41BODY12%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 67
Sig.
strikes
16 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Sidey firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Saleem Haniff9–10

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 · Todd Ronald Anderson
Serhiy SideyRamon Taveras
Official totals — Serhiy Sidey first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Saleem Haniff28–29

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 — 21 scored, Serhiy Sidey first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Cody Merrow MMA Underground29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alex Behunin MMA Mania29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Sidey · 78%29-28 Taveras · 16%30-27 Sidey · 5%30-27 Taveras · 1%30-28 Sidey · 0%

286 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.

Serhiy Sidey

1.58takedowns / 15 min
1.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
6.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
25%
ACCURACY
n/a
1.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ramon Taveras

0.00takedowns / 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.

Serhiy Sidey→ no move
open 63.1%close 63.5%
Ramon Taveras→ no move
open 36.9%close 36.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Serhiy Sidey opened at 63.1% and closed at 63.5% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Serhiy Sidey-192-19963.1%63.5%+0.4pp
Ramon Taveras16016136.9%36.5%−0.4pp
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 2024-01-21 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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