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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Ion Cutelaba vs Ibo Aslan
From the tape · 22 Feb 2025

Ion Cutelaba vs Ibo Aslan

UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Seattle, Washington, USA
Result

Ion Cutelaba beat Ibo Aslan

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
2:51
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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 IonCutelaba“The Hulk”Chisinau
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IboAslan“The Last Ottoman”Gym 23 · Istanbul
Light Heavyweight3 rounds22 Feb 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Aslan.
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Cutelaba.
20-12-1
Record
14-4
31
Age
−3 yr28
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
+2″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1517
UFC bouts
2
4/757% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
Chisinau
From
Istanbul
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 12:51 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:51
Ion Cutelaba14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 26BODY14%2 of 3LEGS14%2 of 2
Ibo Aslan15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 28BODY0%0 of 1LEGS7%1 of 1
14 of 31
Sig.
strikes
15 of 30
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:06
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Ion Cutelaba

Round
1
Clock
2:51
Method
Submission

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Kevin MacDonald.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Ion Cutelaba

3.76takedowns / 15 min
3.76 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
7.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
49%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ibo Aslan

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

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Ion Cutelaba↓ −5.6pp
open 41.7%close 36.1%
Ibo Aslan↑ +5.6pp
open 58.3%close 63.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ion Cutelaba opened at 41.7% and closed at 36.1% (−5.6pp), with Ibo Aslan 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
Ion Cutelaba13016541.7%36.1%−5.6pp
Ibo Aslan-155-20258.3%63.9%+5.6pp
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 2025-02-23 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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