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The Clinch

UFC Fight Night: Sterling vs. Zalal

25 APR 2026 / Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Main event / Featherweight / 5 rounds scheduled

Aljamain Sterling vs Youssef Zalal

Aljamain Sterling, photograph by MMAnytt Aljamain Sterling “Funk Master”

17-5-0 entering this bout

Age 36 · 5′7″170.2 cm

Won

No photograph on file Youssef Zalal “The Moroccan Devil”

8-3-1 entering this bout

Age 29 · 5′10″177.8 cm

Lost

Significant strikes landed / thrown
8/24
R1
4/16
15/29
R2
15/23
2/3
R3
3/4
16/22
R4
3/4
5/11
R5
10/18

Decision (Unanimous) Round 5 · 5:00 Referee Herb Dean

The cards

Judge Aljamain Sterling Youssef Zalal
Mike Bell 49 45
Derek Cleary 49 45
Sal D'amato 49 45

Totals for the bout. No source on file publishes a round-by-round card.

Opening line
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Closing line
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Implied favourite
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Status
No odds have been ingested. Nothing here is estimated.
Aljamain Sterling Enters 8-2-0 against GRAPPLING
Youssef Zalal Enters 4-0-1 against GRAPPLING

Records count only bouts before this one. Opponent styles are career-aggregate and may draw on later fights.

Colour marks which fighter is which. Corner assignment is not in the corpus.

Round by round

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Aljamain Sterling    Youssef Zalal

Bout totals

46
Sig. strikes
35
220
Total strikes
61
25
To the head
25
12
To the body
6
9
To the legs
4
25
At distance
32
15
In the clinch
3
6
On the ground
0
6
Takedowns
0
0
Knockdowns
0
1
Sub. attempts
1
13:49
Control time
3:59

The full sheet

Every measure the corpus holds for this bout, per round, per corner.

Per-round statistics for both corners
Round Corner Sig. Total Head Body Leg Dist. Clinch Ground TD KD Ctrl
R1 Aljamain Sterling 8/24 15/31 5/14 2/3 1/7 5/19 0/1 3/4 1/2 0 2:19
Youssef Zalal 4/16 17/33 3/11 0/1 1/4 4/16 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R2 Aljamain Sterling 15/29 67/88 6/17 5/6 4/6 10/23 5/6 0/0 1/3 0 2:25
Youssef Zalal 15/23 16/24 11/19 2/2 2/2 15/23 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 0:00
R3 Aljamain Sterling 2/3 11/14 1/2 1/1 0/0 1/1 1/2 0/0 2/2 0 0:47
Youssef Zalal 3/4 4/6 2/3 0/0 1/1 3/4 0/0 0/0 0/0 0 3:48
R4 Aljamain Sterling 16/22 81/101 9/13 4/6 3/3 6/9 8/11 2/2 1/2 0 4:16
Youssef Zalal 3/4 3/4 1/2 2/2 0/0 1/2 2/2 0/0 0/0 0 0:11
R5 Aljamain Sterling 5/11 46/59 4/10 0/0 1/1 3/7 1/2 1/2 1/2 0 4:02
Youssef Zalal 10/18 21/30 8/16 2/2 0/0 9/17 1/1 0/0 0/0 0 0:00

Who said so

Every field on this page is a claim made by a source, kept with the source attached. A lower rank is a source trusted further.

Field Value Source Rank Status
Is title fight No UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Is title fight No UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Referee Herb Dean UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result detail Mike Bell 45 - 49. Derek Cleary 45 - 49. Sal D'amato 45 - 49. UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result detail Mike Bell 45 - 49. Derek Cleary 45 - 49. Sal D'amato 45 - 49. UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end round 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end round 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result end time seconds 5:00 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Result method Decision - Unanimous UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Scheduled rounds 5 UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees
Weight class Featherweight UFCStats relational (Kaggle) 12 Canonical
Weight class Featherweight UFCStats via Kaggle 15 Agrees

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