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Events · Nurmagomedov vs Song · Song Yadong vs Umar Nurmagomedov
Red corner SongYadong“Kung Fu Kid”
VSSettled
Blue corner UmarNurmagomedovEagles MMA · Kizilyurt, Dagestan
Bantamweight5 rounds29 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Nurmagomedov.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
24-9-1
Record
20-2
−2 yr28
Age
30
5' 8"
Height
5' 8"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+817
UFC bouts
9
+21%7/1258% of wins
Finishes
3/838% 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
Umar Nurmagomedov
76.0% confidentLOCK
Method calledDEC 58%
Vs the market−10.9pp
Market had our pick at87%
The fight
Song Yadong
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 5
Clock1:48
Missed We called Umar Nurmagomedov at 76.0%Song Yadong 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Song Yadong5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 5BODY40%2 of 2LEGS40%2 of 3
Umar Nurmagomedov7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS57%4 of 5
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
7 of 10
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:58
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 21:48 of action⚡ 1 KD YadongEnded 1:48
Song Yadong6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 10BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 2
Umar Nurmagomedov6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 9BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%2 of 2
6 of 13
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:02
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 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

Song Yadong

Round
2
Clock
1:48
Method
KO/TKO

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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Song Yadong

0.78takedowns / 15 min
0.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.03 / 15m
2.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.76 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
46%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Umar Nurmagomedov

4.03takedowns / 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. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Song YadongUmar NurmagomedovPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Song Yadong vs Umar Nurmagomedov — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Song Yadong and Umar Nurmagomedov from Aug 21 to Aug 29, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Song Yadong moves from 21% to 10% and Umar Nurmagomedov from 79% to 90%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.5%15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%95%Aug 21Aug 23Aug 25Aug 27Aug 29▲ we flagged Umar Nurmagomedov (LOCK) here10%90%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Umar Nurmagomedov's implied chance moved up from 79% to 90% (+11.5pp).

Our published call had Umar Nurmagomedov at 76.0%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 90.5% — our number sat 14.5pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Song Yadong — sportsbook consensus20.9%13.0%21.3%13.0%−8.0pp
Umar Nurmagomedov — sportsbook consensus79.1%78.7%87.1%87.1%+8.0pp
Song Yadong — Polymarket21.0%9.5%21.5%9.5%−11.5pp
Umar Nurmagomedov — Polymarket79.0%78.5%90.5%90.5%+11.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,252 snapshots on file · window Aug 21 17:15Aug 29 12:45Z · last capture Aug 29, 12:45Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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