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Gable Steveson vs Sean Sharaf

Red corner GableStevesonLa Bodega Fight Club · Fights out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
VSSettled
Blue corner SeanSharaf“The Smoke”Xtreme Couture · Hometown (per Sherdog): Santa Ana, California
Heavyweight3 rounds19 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Lands 8.0 more significant strikes a minute than Sharaf.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
4-1
Record
5-2
−7 yr26
Age
33
5' 11"
Height
+4″6' 3"
74″
Reach
+3″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+12
La Bodega Fight Club
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United Statesfights out of
From
Santa Ana, Californiahometown, 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
Gable Steveson
87.5% confidentLOCK
Method calledKO/TKO 62%
Vs the market−5.1pp
Market had our pick at93%
The fight
Sean Sharaf
LOSS✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock0:12
Missed We called Gable Steveson at 87.5% — Sean Sharaf 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

1 round of tape

Round 10:12 of action⚡ 1 KD SharafEnded 0:12
Gable Steveson1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 1
Sean Sharaf3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
1 of 2
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 2

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

Sean Sharaf

Round
1
Clock
0:12
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: Frank Trigg.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Sean Sharaf

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.92takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 0.92 landed per 15 minutes — −1.47 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS29
0.92 / 15m−1.47 vs field
ATTEMPTS85
8.36 / 15m+3.31 vs field
ACCURACY2
11%−40pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.71 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in 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.

Gable StevesonSean SharafPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Gable Steveson vs Sean Sharaf — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Gable Steveson and Sean Sharaf from Sep 09 to Sep 19, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Gable Steveson moves from 90% to 92% and Sean Sharaf from 10% to 8%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%Sep 9Sep 11Sep 14Sep 17Sep 19▲ we flagged Gable Steveson (LOCK) here92%8%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Gable Steveson's implied chance moved up from 90% to 92% (+1.0pp).

Our published call had Gable Steveson at 87.5%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 91.5% — our number sat 4.0pp below 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 captureMove
Gable Steveson — sportsbook consensus89.7%88.6%92.4%92.3%+2.6pp
Sean Sharaf — sportsbook consensus10.3%7.6%11.4%7.7%−2.6pp
Gable Steveson — Polymarket90.5%90.0%93.5%91.5%+1.0pp
Sean Sharaf — Polymarket9.5%6.5%10.0%8.5%−1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,560 snapshots on file · window Sep 09 04:11–Sep 19 23:51Z · last capture Sep 19, 23:51Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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