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Events · UFC Fight Night: Jones vs Sola · Shem Rock vs Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
Red corner ShemRock
VSSettled
Blue corner Abdul-KareemAl-Selwady“Pride of Palestine”Fortis MMA · Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Lightweight Bout3 rounds21 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 34 points more takedown defence than Al-Selwady.
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Rock.
12-3-1
Record
16-4
32
Age
−2 yr30
+3″5' 11"
Height
5' 8"
+4″73″
Reach
69″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
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UFC bouts
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The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
50.4% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 58%
Vs the market−2.5pp
Market had our pick at53%
The fight
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady at 50.4% and Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady 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
Shem Rock17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 37BODY24%4 of 6LEGS18%3 of 3
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady27 sig landed
HEAD59%16 of 33BODY7%2 of 2LEGS33%9 of 17
17 of 46
Sig.
strikes
27 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:30
Control
0:02
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rock firstVito Paolillo9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Shem Rock11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 30BODY27%3 of 5LEGS9%1 of 1
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 36BODY20%5 of 6LEGS24%6 of 8
11 of 36
Sig.
strikes
25 of 50
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:10
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rock firstVito Paolillo9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Shem Rock19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 34BODY47%9 of 11LEGS5%1 of 1
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady29 sig landed
HEAD62%18 of 33BODY21%6 of 6LEGS17%5 of 5
19 of 46
Sig.
strikes
29 of 44
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:01
Control
0:07
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Rock firstVito Paolillo9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Shem RockAbdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
Official totals — Shem Rock first
JudgeTotal
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide27–30
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide27–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide27–30

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 — 8 scored, Shem Rock first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Chris Connor The Fight City27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com27–30
Combat Press.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Al-Selwady · 73%29-28 Al-Selwady · 18%29-28 Rock · 7%30-28 Al-Selwady · 2%

44 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.

Shem Rock

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.47 / 15m
7.69 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.39 / 15m
13%
ACCURACY
23%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady

1.47takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Shem Rock↑ +16.2pp
open 37.2%close 53.4%
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady↓ −16.2pp
open 62.8%close 46.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Shem Rock opened at 37.2% and closed at 53.4% (+16.2pp), with Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady 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 Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady at 50.4%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 46.6% — our number sat 3.8pp above 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
Shem Rock160-12737.2%53.4%+16.2pp
Abdul-Kareem Al-Selwady-18510562.8%46.6%−16.2pp
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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