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History · 2024 · UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Petr Yan vs Song Yadong
From the tape · 9 Mar 2024

Petr Yan vs Song Yadong

UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Petr Yan beat Song Yadong

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 PetrYan“No Mercy”Archangel Michael Club · Yekaterinburg, Omsk
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SongYadong“Kung Fu Kid”
Bantamweight3 rounds9 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
20-5
Record
24-9-1
31
Age
−5 yr26
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
67″
Reach
67″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+113
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+10%6/1060% 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 — 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
Petr Yan22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 19BODY27%6 of 8LEGS32%7 of 8
Song Yadong20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 30BODY5%1 of 2LEGS20%4 of 5
22 of 35
Sig.
strikes
20 of 37
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:49
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Yan firstChris Lee9–10Michael Tate9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Petr Yan41 sig landed
HEAD76%31 of 62BODY24%10 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
Song Yadong31 sig landed
HEAD84%26 of 56BODY13%4 of 7LEGS3%1 of 3
41 of 77
Sig.
strikes
31 of 66
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:33
Control
0:41
Distance 35Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstChris Lee10–9Michael Tate10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Petr Yan36 sig landed
HEAD78%28 of 61BODY17%6 of 8LEGS6%2 of 2
Song Yadong35 sig landed
HEAD86%30 of 61BODY11%4 of 6LEGS3%1 of 2
36 of 71
Sig.
strikes
35 of 69
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:14
Control
0:10
Distance 29Clinch 3Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstChris Lee10–9Michael Tate10–9Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Petr YanSong Yadong
Official totals — Petr Yan first
JudgeTotal
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Michael Tate29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide29–28

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 — 23 scored, Petr Yan first · unofficial

Combat Press.com29–28
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yan · 79%29-28 Yadong · 12%30-27 Yan · 5%30-27 Yadong · 3%29-27 Yan · 1%

249 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.

Petr Yan

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.78 / 15m
3.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
39%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Song Yadong

0.78takedowns / 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.

Petr Yanclose only
no opening line on recordclose 59.1%
Song Yadongclose only
no opening line on recordclose 40.9%
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: Petr Yan 59.1%, Song Yadong 40.9%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Petr Yan-163-16559.1%
Song Yadong13240.9%
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 2024-03-10 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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