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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Jason Herzog
Shem RockAbdul-Kareem Al-Selwady
Official card — Shem Rock first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 47% wide9–109–109–1027–30
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 53% wide9–109–109–1027–30
Clemens Werner2.2 avg spread · 52% wide9–109–109–1027–30

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.

Still to come on this page

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The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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