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History · 2021 · UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira · Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen
From the tape · 30 Oct 2021

Petr Yan vs Cory Sandhagen

UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Petr Yan beat Cory Sandhagen

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Interim Bantamweight TitleTitle fightCo-MainReferee · 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 PetrYan“No Mercy”Archangel Michael Club · Born in Dudinka, Russia · Fights out of Yekaterinburg, Russia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CorySandhagenElevation Fight Team · Born in Aurora, Colorado, United States · Fights out of Aurora, Colorado, United States
Interim Bantamweight Title5 rounds30 Oct 2021At the time: #1 Bantamweight vs #3 · rankings of 25 October 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Carries 29 points more takedown defence than Sandhagen.
20-5
Record
18-7
−1 yr28
Age
29
5' 7"
Height
+4″5' 11"
67″
Reach
+3″70″
Switch
Stance
Switch
8
UFC bouts
+19
4/757% of wins
Finishes
+14%5/771% of wins
Archangel Michael Club
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Dudinka, Russia
Born in
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Yekaterinburg, Russia
Fights out of
Aurora, Colorado, 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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Petr Yan19 sig landed
HEAD21%4 of 21BODY21%4 of 4LEGS58%11 of 12
Cory Sandhagen37 sig landed
HEAD57%21 of 68BODY16%6 of 6LEGS27%10 of 11
19 of 37
Sig.
strikes
37 of 85
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstDavid Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Vito Paolillo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Petr Yan38 sig landed
HEAD61%23 of 50BODY21%8 of 8LEGS18%7 of 7
Cory Sandhagen45 sig landed
HEAD67%30 of 95BODY20%9 of 12LEGS13%6 of 6
38 of 65
Sig.
strikes
45 of 113
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:05
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 36Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 45Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 35:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Yan
Petr Yan36 sig landed
HEAD81%29 of 49BODY14%5 of 6LEGS6%2 of 2
Cory Sandhagen37 sig landed
HEAD78%29 of 78BODY11%4 of 4LEGS11%4 of 4
36 of 57
Sig.
strikes
37 of 86
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:40
Control
0:07
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 45:00 of action1 sub attempt
Petr Yan36 sig landed
HEAD78%28 of 59BODY22%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Cory Sandhagen25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 77BODY16%4 of 5LEGS4%1 of 1
36 of 67
Sig.
strikes
25 of 83
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:24
Control
0:03
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 34Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Petr Yan20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 38BODY10%2 of 3LEGS10%2 of 3
Cory Sandhagen25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 71BODY20%5 of 5LEGS8%2 of 2
20 of 44
Sig.
strikes
25 of 78
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Yan firstDavid Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Vito Paolillo10–9

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
Petr YanCory Sandhagen
Official totals — Petr Yan first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 45% wide49–46
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 41% wide49–46
Vito Paolillo2.0 avg spread · 46% wide49–46

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 — 26 scored, Petr Yan first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport49–46
MM AJunkie.com49–46
MM AMania.com49–46
Sheehan SevereMMA.com49–46
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com49–46
John Pollock POST Wrestling49–46
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl49–46
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press49–46
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com49–46
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com49–46
Jillian DeCoursey49–46
Greg Rosenstein The Athletic49–46
Steve Duncan mma.uno49–46
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com49–46
Severe MMA.com49–46
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com49–46
Nick Baldwin theScore49–46
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks49–46
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com49–46
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com49–46
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com48–47
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA48–47
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com48–47
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com48–47
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com48–47
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com48–47

Fan vote · unofficial

49-46 Yan · 43%48-47 Yan · 35%48-47 Sandhagen · 13%49-45 Yan · 2%48-46 Yan · 2%

833 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.

Petr Yan

1.70takedowns / 15 min
1.70 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.14 / 15m
3.47 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.45 / 15m
49%
ACCURACY
33%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Cory Sandhagen

1.14takedowns / 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 in Bantamweight

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.

Petr Yan↓ −3.7pp
open 72.4%close 68.7%
Cory Sandhagen↑ +3.7pp
open 27.6%close 31.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Petr Yan opened at 72.4% and closed at 68.7% (−3.7pp), with Cory Sandhagen 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
Petr Yan-300-26172.4%68.7%−3.7pp
Cory Sandhagen25020427.6%31.3%+3.7pp
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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