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Modestas Bukauskas vs Oumar Sy

Red corner ModestasBukauskas“The Baltic Gladiator”Born in Klaipėda, Lithuania · Fights out of Denham, Buckinghamshire, England
VSSettled
Blue corner OumarSyBulgarian Top Team · Hometown (per Sherdog): Paris
Light Heavyweight3 rounds5 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Sy.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bukauskas.
21-7
Record
12-3
32
Age
−2 yr30
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
76″
Reach
+7″83″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
Denham, Buckinghamshire, Englandfights out of
From
Parishometown, per Sherdog
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Oumar Sy
74.8% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 45%
Vs the market+7.5pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Modestas Bukauskas
LOSS✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock3:57
Missed We called Oumar Sy at 74.8% — Modestas Bukauskas won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Modestas Bukauskas2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 17BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Oumar Sy34 sig landed
HEAD74%25 of 42BODY6%2 of 4LEGS21%7 of 7
2 of 17
Sig.
strikes
34 of 53
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
3:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 24
Round 23:57 of action⚡ 1 KD BukauskasEnded 3:57
Modestas Bukauskas20 sig landed
HEAD100%20 of 29BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Oumar Sy5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 3BODY60%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
20 of 29
Sig.
strikes
5 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
1:35
Control
2:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 5Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 3Ground 1

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Modestas Bukauskas

Round
2
Clock
3:57
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Modestas Bukauskas

0.21takedowns / 15 min
0.21 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.90 / 15m
0.32 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.29 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Oumar Sy

2.90takedowns / 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 (6.25 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Modestas BukauskasOumar SyPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Modestas Bukauskas vs Oumar Sy — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Modestas Bukauskas and Oumar Sy from Aug 26 to Sep 05, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Modestas Bukauskas moves from 38% to 30% and Oumar Sy from 62% to 70%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.25%35%45%55%65%75%Aug 26Aug 28Aug 31Sep 3Sep 5▲ we flagged Oumar Sy (HIGH) here30%70%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Oumar Sy's implied chance moved up from 62% to 70% (+8.0pp).

This series stops at Sep 05 18:01Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Oumar Sy at 74.8%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 69.5% — our number sat 5.3pp above the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLast pre-fightMove
Modestas Bukauskas — sportsbook consensus39.0%31.3%39.0%32.0%−7.0pp
Oumar Sy — sportsbook consensus61.0%61.0%68.7%68.0%+7.0pp
Modestas Bukauskas — Polymarket38.5%29.5%38.5%30.5%−8.0pp
Oumar Sy — Polymarket61.5%61.5%70.5%69.5%+8.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,679 snapshots on file · window Aug 26 04:18–Sep 05 17:51Z · last capture Sep 05, 17:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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