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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till · Molly McCann vs Ji Yeon Kim
From the tape · 4 Sep 2021

Molly McCann vs Ji Yeon Kim

UFC Fight Night: Brunson vs. Till · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Molly McCann beat Ji Yeon Kim

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Women's FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jason HerzogFOTN

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MollyMcCann“Meatball”Next Generation MMA Liverpool · Born in Liverpool, England · Fights out of Liverpool, England
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Ji YeonKim“Firefist”Syndicate MMA · Born in Incheon, South Korea · Fights out of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Women's Flyweight3 rounds4 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 12 points more takedown defence than McCann.
  • Averages 1.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kim.
14-8
Record
9-7-2
31
Age
31
5' 4"
Height
+3″5' 7"
62″
Reach
+10″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
6
0/30% of wins
Finishes
+33%1/333% of wins
Next Generation MMA Liverpool
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Liverpool, England
Born in
Incheon, South Korea
Liverpool, England
Fights out of
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

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
Molly McCann21 sig landed
HEAD81%17 of 45BODY19%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Ji Yeon Kim24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 63BODY29%7 of 9LEGS8%2 of 3
21 of 51
Sig.
strikes
24 of 75
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:32
Control
2:35
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · McCann firstDerek Cleary9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Molly McCann51 sig landed
HEAD84%43 of 93BODY14%7 of 7LEGS2%1 of 1
Ji Yeon Kim42 sig landed
HEAD64%27 of 106BODY19%8 of 11LEGS17%7 of 7
51 of 101
Sig.
strikes
42 of 124
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:00
Distance 51Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 42Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · McCann firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Molly McCann55 sig landed
HEAD91%50 of 111BODY9%5 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
Ji Yeon Kim56 sig landed
HEAD80%45 of 147BODY16%9 of 13LEGS4%2 of 2
55 of 120
Sig.
strikes
56 of 162
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 54Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 55Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · McCann firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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
Molly McCannJi Yeon Kim
Official totals — Molly McCann first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28

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 — 12 scored, Molly McCann first · unofficial

Shawn Bitter Cageside Press30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Jillian DeCoursey30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kim · 39%30-27 McCann · 25%29-28 McCann · 23%30-27 Kim · 11%30-26 Kim · 2%

56 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.

Molly McCann

1.78takedowns / 15 min
1.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
4.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
36%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Ji Yeon Kim

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Molly McCann↑ +14.2pp
open 36.5%close 50.7%
Ji Yeon Kim↓ −14.2pp
open 63.5%close 49.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Molly McCann opened at 36.5% and closed at 50.7% (+14.2pp), with Ji Yeon Kim 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Molly McCann165-11536.5%50.7%+14.2pp
Ji Yeon Kim-190-10863.5%49.3%−14.2pp
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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