Fight completed
Petr Yan vs Merab Dvalishvili
Petr Yan def. Merab Dvalishvili · Decision - Unanimous · Round 5, 5:00
Tale of the tape
How they win
Yan
20 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 7
- Submission
- 1
- Decision
- 12
Dvalishvili
21 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 3
- Submission
- 2
- Decision
- 16
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record. No striking or grappling averages are available for both fighters yet.
Matchup snapshot
Yan
16 measured UFC bouts, 282.1 minutes
Dvalishvili
17 measured UFC bouts, 299.1 minutes
- 5.161456 landed of 2652 thrown (55%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 4.421322 landed of 3181 thrown (42%)
- 4.24opponents landed 1197 of 2963
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.80opponents landed 838 of 1823
- 49%32 of 65 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 35%119 of 338 attempts
- 86%conceded 23 of 169 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 76%conceded 12 of 50 faced
- 10scored, 1 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 1scored, 1 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Petr Yan
4-1 in last 5- W
vs Merab Dvalishvili
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2
Sig. strikes 139 of 230 · Takedowns 5 of 9
- W
vs Marcus McGhee
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. de Ridder
Sig. strikes 81 of 146 · Takedowns 1 of 3
- W
vs Deiveson Figueiredo
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo
Sig. strikes 121 of 193 · Takedowns 1 of 4
- W
vs Song Yadong
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2
Sig. strikes 99 of 183 · Takedowns 2 of 5
- L
vs Merab Dvalishvili
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Dvalishvili
Sig. strikes 75 of 143 · Takedowns 1 of 5
Merab Dvalishvili
4-1 in last 5- L
vs Petr Yan
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 323: Dvalishvili vs. Yan 2
Sig. strikes 134 of 383 · Takedowns 2 of 29
- W
vs Cory Sandhagen
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 320: Ankalaev vs. Pereira 2
Sig. strikes 114 of 265 · Takedowns 20 of 37
- W
vs Sean O'Malley
Submission · R3 · 4:42
· UFC 316: Dvalishvili vs. O'Malley 2
Sig. strikes 52 of 115 · Takedowns 5 of 12
- W
vs Umar Nurmagomedov
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano
Sig. strikes 111 of 259 · Takedowns 7 of 30
- W
vs Sean O'Malley
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 306 – Riyadh Season Noche UFC: O’Malley vs. Dvalishvili
Sig. strikes 82 of 164 · Takedowns 6 of 15
Statwell Intel
The full analysis is published.
They have fought twice over five rounds and split them, with one question at the centre of both: how many of Merab Dvalishvili's takedowns Petr Yan stops. The third bout asks which of the first two was the exception.
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