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Events · UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues · Calvin Kattar vs Youssef Zalal
From the tape · 15 Feb 2025

Calvin Kattar vs Youssef Zalal

UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Rodrigues · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Youssef Zalal beat Calvin Kattar

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

CK
Red corner CalvinKattarMethuen, Massachusetts
VSOn the tape
Blue corner YoussefZalal“The Moroccan Devil”Factory X · Englewood, Colorado
Featherweight3 rounds15 Feb 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
23-10
Record
18-6-1
36
Age
−8 yr28
+1″5' 11"
Height
5' 10"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+313
UFC bouts
10
+7%4/757% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
Methuen, Massachusetts
From
Englewood, Colorado
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
Calvin Kattar8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 20BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Youssef Zalal26 sig landed
HEAD62%16 of 33BODY8%2 of 2LEGS31%8 of 11
8 of 23
Sig.
strikes
26 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kattar firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Calvin Kattar10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 27BODY20%2 of 3LEGS30%3 of 7
Youssef Zalal27 sig landed
HEAD74%20 of 35BODY7%2 of 5LEGS19%5 of 6
10 of 37
Sig.
strikes
27 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kattar firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Calvin Kattar20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 63BODY10%2 of 6LEGS15%3 of 5
Youssef Zalal21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 36BODY5%1 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
20 of 74
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Kattar firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Calvin KattarYoussef Zalal
Official totals — Calvin Kattar first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 11 scored, Calvin Kattar first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press28–29
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zalal · 73%30-27 Zalal · 11%29-28 Kattar · 8%30-28 Kattar · 2%

63 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.

Calvin Kattar

0.34takedowns / 15 min
0.34 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.84 / 15m
1.17 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.94 / 15m
29%
ACCURACY
31%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.30 / 15m

Youssef Zalal

1.84takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Calvin Kattar↓ −11.4pp
open 32.5%close 21.1%
Youssef Zalal↑ +11.4pp
open 67.5%close 78.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Calvin Kattar opened at 32.5% and closed at 21.1% (−11.4pp), with Youssef Zalal 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
Calvin Kattar19535532.5%21.1%−11.4pp
Youssef Zalal-238-46867.5%78.9%+11.4pp
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 2025-02-16 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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