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Events · UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev vs Rafael Cerqueira
From the tape · 22 Nov 2025

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev vs Rafael Cerqueira

UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Doha, Qatar
Result

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev beat Rafael Cerqueira

Method
Submission
Round
1 of 3
Clock
0:33
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Rich Mitchell

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 Abdul RakhmanYakhyaevNuremberg MMA · Turkey
VSOn the tape
RC
Blue corner RafaelCerqueira
Light Heavyweight3 rounds22 Nov 2025
The story going in
  • Averages 11.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cerqueira.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
10-0
Record
11-4
−11 yr24
Age
35
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
+2″78″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
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 10:33 of action⚡ 1 KD Yakhyaev1 sub attemptEnded 0:33
Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Rafael Cerqueira0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

6 of 10
Sig.
strikes
0 of 1
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 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

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev

Round
1
Clock
0:33
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: Rich Mitchell.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev

11.49takedowns / 15 min
11.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
15.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
75%
ACCURACY
n/a
7.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rafael Cerqueira

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.

Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaevclose only
no opening line on recordclose 90.1%
Rafael Cerqueiraclose only
no opening line on recordclose 9.9%
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: Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev 90.1%, Rafael Cerqueira 9.9%, vig removed.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Abdul Rakhman Yakhyaev-178190.1%
Rafael Cerqueira4508609.9%
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% · scraped 2026-06-10 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Abdulrakhman Yakhyaev, 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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