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Events · UFC Fight Night: Petrino vs Asplund · Ion Cutelaba vs Oumar Sy
Red corner IonCutelaba“The Hulk”Chisinau
VSSettled
Blue corner OumarSyBulgarian Top Team · Paris
Light Heavyweight Bout3 rounds14 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 19 UFC bouts deep — 15 more than Sy.
  • Carries 19 points more striking defence than Cutelaba.
20-12-1
Record
12-2
32
Age
−2 yr30
6' 1"
Height
+3″6' 4"
75″
Reach
+8″83″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1519
UFC bouts
4
5/862% of wins
Finishes
+4%2/367% of wins
Chisinau
From
Paris
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
Oumar Sy
71.9% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 44%
Vs the market+4.8pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Ion Cutelaba
LOSS
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock4:24
Missed We called Oumar Sy at 71.9%Ion Cutelaba won. The method call missed as well.
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 14:24 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:24
Ion Cutelaba14 sig landed
HEAD29%4 of 9BODY29%4 of 5LEGS43%6 of 6
Oumar Sy5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS80%4 of 4
14 of 20
Sig.
strikes
5 of 11
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:27
Control
0:18
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Ion Cutelaba

Round
1
Clock
4:24
Method
SUB

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: Herb Dean.

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
2.45 / 15m
7.67 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.00 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
35%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Oumar Sy

2.45takedowns / 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↓ −8.4pp
open 35.7%close 27.3%
Oumar Sy↑ +8.4pp
open 64.3%close 72.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ion Cutelaba opened at 35.7% and closed at 27.3% (−8.4pp), with Oumar Sy 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.

Our published call had Oumar Sy at 71.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 72.7% — our number sat 0.8pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ion Cutelaba17025035.7%27.3%−8.4pp
Oumar Sy-200-31864.3%72.7%+8.4pp
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% · 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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