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Events · UFC Fight Night: Acosta vs Lewis · Sean O'Malley vs Song Yadong
Red corner SeanO'Malley“Suga”Red Hawk Academy · Helena, Montana
VSSettled
Blue corner SongYadong“Kung Fu Kid”
Bantamweight Bout3 rounds24 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Carries 13 points more takedown defence than O'Malley.
20-3
Record
24-9-1
31
Age
−3 yr28
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+5″72″
Reach
67″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+115
+5%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
6/1155% 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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Sean O'Malley
58.8% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 64%
Vs the market−3.1pp
Market had our pick at62%
The fight
Sean O'Malley
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Sean O'Malley at 58.8% and Sean O'Malley won. The method call landed too.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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
Sean O'Malley16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 13BODY38%6 of 8LEGS25%4 of 5
Song Yadong10 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 7BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%10 of 15
16 of 26
Sig.
strikes
10 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
0:38
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Sean O'Malley7 sig landed
HEAD14%1 of 8BODY71%5 of 11LEGS14%1 of 1
Song Yadong14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 19BODY7%1 of 2LEGS36%5 of 10
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
14 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:00
Control
1:28
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sean O'Malley25 sig landed
HEAD64%16 of 32BODY20%5 of 9LEGS16%4 of 5
Song Yadong12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 29BODY8%1 of 3LEGS33%4 of 8
25 of 46
Sig.
strikes
12 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · O'Malley firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Ron McCarthy10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Sean O'MalleySong Yadong
Official totals — Sean O'Malley first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 21 scored, Sean O'Malley first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight29–28
Cody Merrow MMA Underground29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Chris Connor The Fight City28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Yadong · 48%29-28 O'Malley · 47%30-27 Yadong · 1%30-27 O'Malley · 1%

932 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.

Sean O'Malley

0.24takedowns / 15 min
0.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.78 / 15m
0.57 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.00 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
39%
0.20 / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there. (Neither our captured price series nor the sportsbook open/close record on file has this pair.)

Sean O'Malley vs Song Yadong.

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