Merab Dvalishvili vs Song Yadong — fantasy matchup

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Merab Dvalishvili 70% Song Yadong 30%

Run as an unbooked fight, this one splits our two reads — they do not name the same winner, so there is no lean here to give you.

Our two reads disagree. One leans Merab Dvalishvili at 70%; the other leans Song Yadong at 53%. When they split like this there is no read worth having — treat it as a coin toss.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 59%.

KO/TKO

28%

Submission

11%

Decision

62%

These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Merab Dvalishvili vs Song Yadong — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 14-3	UFC record	UFC 13-4 (1 draw/NC)
21-5	Pro record	24-9-1
The Machine	Nickname	Kung Fu Kid
5' 6"	Height	5' 8"
68"▲	Reach	67"
Orthodox	Stance	Orthodox
35	Age	28
135 lbs.	Weight	135 lbs.
Georgia	Nationality	—
Vani, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union	Born in	Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Long Island, New York, United States	Fights out of	Heilongjiang, China
Serra-Longo Fight Team	Camp	—

Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality and camp from the public fighter register. 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. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Merab Dvalishvili (left) vs Song Yadong (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min

4.42

4.26

Striking accuracy

41%

43%

Strikes absorbed / min

2.8

3.76

Striking defence

54%

Takedowns / 15 min

5.97

0.79

Takedown accuracy

35%

41%

Takedown defence

76%

73%

Sub attempts / 15 min

0.3

Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Merab Dvalishvili and Song Yadong have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

Change either fighter: Merab Dvalishvili vs Song Yadong in Build your own → Merab Dvalishvili — record, tape and career → Song Yadong — record, tape and career → This week's real card →

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