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History · 2025 · UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan
From the tape · 6 Dec 2025

Merab Dvalishvili vs Petr Yan

UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Petr Yan beat Merab Dvalishvili

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Bantamweight TitleTitle fightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
VSOn the tape
Blue corner PetrYan“No Mercy”Archangel Michael Club · Yekaterinburg, Omsk
Bantamweight Title5 rounds6 Dec 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 14-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 14 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 11 UFC wins.
21-5
Record
20-5
34
Age
−2 yr32
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+1″68″
Reach
67″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+116
UFC bouts
15
2/1414% of wins
Finishes
+22%4/1136% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Archangel Michael Club
Tbilisi
From
Yekaterinburg, Omsk
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Merab Dvalishvili22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 60BODY18%4 of 6LEGS9%2 of 2
Petr Yan17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 30BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
22 of 68
Sig.
strikes
17 of 32
0 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:33
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Merab Dvalishvili19 sig landed
HEAD100%19 of 71BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Petr Yan21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 31BODY5%1 of 1LEGS10%2 of 2
19 of 73
Sig.
strikes
21 of 34
0 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:06
Control
0:34
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Eric Colón9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Merab Dvalishvili21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 57BODY14%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Petr Yan25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 40BODY20%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 62
Sig.
strikes
25 of 46
2 of 7
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:07
Control
0:19
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 7Ground 2
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Merab Dvalishvili37 sig landed
HEAD76%28 of 60BODY19%7 of 8LEGS5%2 of 3
Petr Yan38 sig landed
HEAD74%28 of 44BODY16%6 of 6LEGS11%4 of 5
37 of 71
Sig.
strikes
38 of 55
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:15
Control
1:14
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 34Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 32Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10
Round 55:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Merab Dvalishvili35 sig landed
HEAD69%24 of 93BODY23%8 of 13LEGS9%3 of 3
Petr Yan38 sig landed
HEAD74%28 of 50BODY11%4 of 5LEGS16%6 of 8
35 of 109
Sig.
strikes
38 of 63
0 of 5
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:11
Control
0:48
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 32Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Eric Colón9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Merab DvalishviliPetr Yan
Official totals — Merab Dvalishvili first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell46–49
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide47–48
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide46–49

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 — 19 scored, Merab Dvalishvili first · unofficial

Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection45–50
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com45–50
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com45–50
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com45–50
E. Casey Leydon45–50
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com45–50
Combat Press.com45–50
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com45–50
Drake Riggs Uncrowned45–50
Chris De Santiago MMA Island45–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com45–50
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com45–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com45–50
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com46–49
Sheehan SevereMMA.com46–49
Jake Noecker Home of Fight46–49
Steve Duncan mma.uno46–49
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com46–49
Scott Fontana New York Post46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

50-45 Yan · 57%49-46 Yan · 28%48-47 Yan · 6%48-47 Dvalishvili · 3%50-44 Yan · 1%

876 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.

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min
5.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.70 / 15m
17.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.47 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
49%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Petr Yan

1.70takedowns / 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.

Merab Dvalishvili↓ −13.8pp
open 72.3%close 58.5%
Petr Yan↑ +13.8pp
open 27.7%close 41.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Merab Dvalishvili opened at 72.3% and closed at 58.5% (−13.8pp), with Petr Yan 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
Merab Dvalishvili-330-15572.3%58.5%−13.8pp
Petr Yan24013227.7%41.5%+13.8pp
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 2025-12-07 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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