Besam Yousef Record, Stats & Next Fight

UFC fight history

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Event	Date
L	Papy Abedi Welterweight	Decision	Split	R3	5:00	UFC on FUEL TV: Mousasi vs. Latifi	Apr 6, 2013
L	Simeon Thoresen Welterweight	Submission	Rear Naked Choke	R2	2:36	UFC on FUEL TV: Gustafsson vs. Silva	Apr 14, 2012

Outside the UFC

7-2across 9 bouts · 9 promotions · wins by 2 KO · 4 sub · 1 decSuperior Challenge 11 · Superior Challenge 10 · Superior Challenge 9 · The Zone FC 9 · The Zone FC 6 +4

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
W	Max Duarte5-3	Submission	Brabo Choke	R2	0:00	Superior Challenge 11	Nov 29, 2014
L	David Bielkheden26-13	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	Superior Challenge 10	May 3, 2014
L	Danny Mitchell20-9-1	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R2	2:13	Superior Challenge 9	Nov 23, 2013
W	Jason Ponet26-20-1	Submission	Guillotine Choke	R1	1:24	The Zone FC 9	May 7, 2011
W	Joao Neves0-3	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	1:18	The Zone FC 6	Mar 27, 2010
W	Mickael Delvalle2-3	Decision	Unanimous	R3	5:00	The Zone FC 5	Nov 7, 2009
W	Pawel Nakonieczny1-2	KO/TKO	Punches	R1	0:13	The Zone FC 4	Apr 25, 2009
W	Thomas Formo3-1	Submission	Anaconda Choke	R1	1:37	The Zone FC 3	Nov 8, 2008
W	Fredrik Klingsell0-9	KO/TKO	Doctor Stoppage	R2	3:33	The Zone FC 2	May 10, 2008

Non-UFC bouts (regional/other promotions) and Dana White’s Contender Series — shown for context only, excluded from Schedule Score, striking/grappling rates, and every UFC-scoped metric.

Amateur

0-1across 1 amateur bout · 1 promotionSSF

Res	Opponent	Outcome	Finish	Rd	Time	Promotion	Date
L	Fredrik Hystad2-0	Submission	Rear-Naked Choke	R1	2:30	SSF	Jun 5, 2004

Amateur (pre-professional) bouts — shown for context only and excluded from the professional record and every UFC-scoped metric.

Method of victory & defeat

KO / TKO

2 wins, 0 losses

W2

L0

Submission

4 wins, 2 losses

W4

L2

Decision

1 win, 2 losses

W1

L2

KO history

Knockout power and chin durability (UFC; clean KOs only).

Besam Yousef

PowerChin

Knockout rate

—

No UFC win on record

Knockdowns dealt

—

No UFC win on record

Clean KO losses

0

cuts / injury TKOs excluded

Knockdowns absorbed

0

0.00 per 100 head

Chin gauges use a league scale: green = clean record, red = bottom ~10% of UFC fighters (4+ KO losses · 6+ knockdowns absorbed).

Never finished by strikesin the UFC

Decision behavior

Judging

1 scorecard on file

Besam Yousef

Scorecard luck

Wrong end of the cards

Won just 0 of 1 coin-flip decision — repeatedly on the wrong end of close calls. Judges have given them 0 of 1 round they disagreed on (0%).

Coin-flip decisions

Split + majority

0–1

Won – Lost

Swing rounds

Judges disagreed

0–1

Won – Lost

0% went their way

Unanimous

None

Split1 decision · 100%

1L

Majority

None

10-8 rounds

None scoredno 10-8 rounds in this fighter’s decisions

Most frequent judges

All judges →

Scorecard data ingested from MMA Decisions

Career striking

OverallC46th

53%71 / 133

Striking accuracy

38%

Striking defense

Sig. strikes / min-0.84 differential

Landed3.14

Absorbed3.98

44%str + td

Defensive rating

Striking edge

-9%accuracy vs opp. landing

worseevenbetter

Striking zones

Per-15-minute breakdown — where this fighter lands, and where they get hit.

UFC only

Besam Yousef

Landed per 15

Head

C

56th

29.2

56th

Body

A

84th

15.3

84th

Leg

F

18th

2.7

18th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Absorbed per 15

Head

A

75th

21.9

75th

Body

F

1st

35.2

1st

Leg

A+

85th

2.7

85th

Ranks are division percentiles — e.g. 90th = top 10% of the weight class. Higher is always better: on “absorbed” rows the rank is inverted, so a high rank means they get hit less.

Career totals — landed / attempted

Landed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	29.2	44	101	44%
Body	15.3	23	26	88%
Leg	2.7	4	6	67%

Absorbed (career total)

Zone	Per 15	Landed	Attempted	Accuracy
Head	21.9	33	80	41%
Body	35.2	53	57	93%
Leg	2.7	4	10	40%

UFCStats career rates, per 15 minutes. Percentiles vs the division; absorbed is inverted so higher is better.

Grappling

Per-15-minute breakdown of takedowns, submissions, and ground control.

UFC only

Besam Yousef

67%

Takedown accuracy

50%

Takedown defense

Control / 15 min-3.0 min net

On top3.0

On bottom6.1

Offense

Takedowns

B

59th

1.3

59th

TD accuracy

67%

Sub attempts

B

58th

0.0

58th

Control

C

57th

3.0 min

57th

Defense

TD defense

D

39th

50%

39th

Controlled

6.1 min

Career totals — landed / attempted, control time

Offense

Takedowns	2 / 3
Submission attempts	0
Control time	4:35

Defense

TDs defended	5 / 10
Control absorbed	9:07

Rates above are per 15 minutes of UFC fight time (23min total). Value colors reflect the per-15 rate’s percentile against the current weight class baseline; raw totals without a division reference stay neutral.

Pace & fade

Round-by-round work rate, and whether they fade.

UFC only

Besam Yousef

2 UFC bouts (per‑round) · 23 min

—

< 2 bouts to R3

Yousef hasn't reached the third round in enough UFC bouts to read a reliable pace pattern — most of their fights end early. The round-by-round pace below is shown for what rounds there are.

YousefOutput / min

Faded points are drawn from a single bout that reached that round, so they’re less reliable than the solid points averaged over many fights.

Rounds backed by fewer than 2 bouts are drawn smaller and dimmed with an n= count — a deep round seen in one or two fights is a thin sample, not a settled rate. Per-round bout counts are in the breakdown below.

Full per-round breakdown

What drives the pace · per round

The composite output line above blends these three inputs — splitting them out shows whether the work rate is built on striking volume, takedown pressure, or top control, and which input fades.

Sig. strikes landed

Youseflanded / min

Takedown attempts

Yousefattempts / min

Control time

Yousef% of round

Round	Output / min	Sig landed / min	Sig absorbed / min	TD att / min	Control	Bouts
R1	3.2	2.9	4.1	0.00	8%	2
R2	5.1	3.6	4.7	0.26	20%	2
R3	5.4	3.0	2.6	0.20	45%	1

Output / minis the headline work rate — significant strikes landed, plus 3 per takedown attempt, plus one per 15 seconds of control — so a takedown-and-grind round isn’t scored as idle the way bare striking volume would. The remaining columns are its components. Per-round rates use UFCStats per-round data (available for ~95% of bouts since 2008). Each round’s rates are averaged only over bouts that reached that round, so the bout count shrinks as rounds deepen. The final round of a finished fight is pro-rated by its actual length.

Schedule Score

Opponent quality, ranked across the UFC. Recent fights weighted heavier.

UFC only

Besam Yousef

2 resolved UFC bouts

Schedule Score

28/ 100

0255075100

Schedule strength

F

0th

8%

0th

Win quality

C

58th

42%

58th

Limited UFC sample (2 bouts). The headline Schedule Score is held toward a rookie baseline until a fighter has 6+ UFC bouts — a thin UFC résumé hasn’t yet proven a strong schedule. The component bars above are not down-weighted.

Opponent quality distribution

Every UFC bout, grouped by who the opponent was at the time.

2

UnprovenFewer than 3 fights, or sub-.40 win rate

Tier	Bouts	Record	Win rate
Unproven	2	0-2	0%

Highest-quality opponents

Toughest opponents on the scheduleScore, scored at the time of the fight.

Pre-UFC opposition

Moderate

Opponents' combined record

83-63-2

.568 win rate

Winning-record opponents

5 of 9

carried winning pro records

Pro bouts faced

9

all opponents have records on file

A descriptive read of the non-UFC slate from opponents’ full career pro records — not a UFC-grade Schedule Score.

All bouts — opponent quality bout-by-bout

Res	Opponent	Tier	Score	Date
L	Papy Abedi	Unproven	8	Apr 6, 2013
L	Simeon Thoresen	Unproven	8	Apr 14, 2012

Per-bout quality scoring: champion = 100; same-division ranks 1–5 = 90 → 78 linear; ranks 6–15 = 75 → 60 linear; cross-division champion = 78; cross-division ranked = 45; title-fight challenger (no rank signal) = 50, bumped to 65 when opp had an elite career UFC record at the time. Unranked opponents are scored on UFC record-at-time (long-tenured vet 60, contender-level 45, established 30, building 18, unproven 8). P4P top-10 at time adds +5; top-3 adds +8 (capped at 100). The Schedule Score combines schedule strength (65%) and quality wins (35%), then is held toward a rookie baseline for fighters with limited UFC experience so a thin résumé reads honestly low.

Career cohorts

2 resolved UFC bouts

Performance broken down by situation — camp length, response to the previous result, title-fight presence, and rematches. Computed across every completed UFC bout.

Camp length

Days between fights

Short turnaround

< 100 days

—

Typical camp

100–180 days

—

Long layoff

> 180 days

0-1

1 bout

UFC debut

first UFC bout

0-1

1 bout

Post-result bounce

Performance based on the previous UFC result

After a loss

next bout after a defeat

0-1

1 bout

After a win

next bout after a win

—

First UFC bout

no precedent

0-1

1 bout

Title fights

Performance with a belt on the line

All title fights

as challenger or champion

—

As champion

defending the belt

—

As challenger

fighting for the belt

—

Rematches

Performance when meeting an opponent again

All rematches

any second meeting

—

Revenge bouts

lost the first meeting

—

Encore bouts

won the first meeting

—

Activity & layoff

Last fight, activity, and divisional context.

Time since last UFC bout

11y 7mo

Active

0–6 mo

Normal

6–12 mo

Layoff

12–18 mo

Extended

18+ mo

Besam Yousef

Extended layoff

11y 7mosince last bout

vs Max Duarte · Nov 29, 2014

DraftKings fantasy scoring

DFSAs underdog 0-2

40.2

DK avg

55.0

Median

55.0

Ceiling

25.5

Floor

0%

Boom

0%

Bust

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