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Cody Chovancek vs SuYoung You prediction

Bantamweight · 3 rounds · UFC Edmonton (UFC Fight Night: Buckley vs Malott) · 17 Oct 2026
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UFC 3-1 · Pro 16-4
FightIQ’s read

FightIQ's read: Cody Chovancek over SuYoung You at 58% confidence — a lean.

That read sits 0.0pp above the sportsbook line's implied 58% on Cody Chovancek.

Most likely outcome: a decision at 46% (KO/TKO 29%, submission 25%, decision 46%) — a lean rather than a call.

The model gives it a 46% chance of going the distance, with a projected median fight time around 9:35.

Live on Polymarket, Cody Chovancek is priced around 58%.

Assembled from the model's own outputs — not written free-hand. If a number isn't in the model, it isn't in this summary.

Prediction

One honest, calibrated confidence rating — the number is the signal.

We predict Cody Chovancek — 58% confident
Cody Chovancek 58%SuYoung You 42%
How it ends (method)
KO / TKO29%
Submission25%
Decision46%
How long it lasts (rounds)
Reaches R266%
Reaches R352%
Goes the distance46%
9:35
median time
+0.0pp
vs sportsbook line

Published 10 Oct 2026, 09:11 UTC — before the fight. Graded on this page after it.

By the numbers

  • UFC debut

    Chovancek’s UFC debut, against a fighter with 4 UFC fights. Debutants facing an opponent with 4 to 9 UFC fights win 41% of the time (215 of 525 fights).

  • Age

    Chovancek is 2 years younger. With an age gap of 2 to 3 years, the younger fighter wins 57% of UFC fights (1,252 of 2,209 fights).

History leans You on 1 of these; our model still picks Chovancek.

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

Odds

The sportsbook line next to the live prediction-market prices — information only. Each bar is the two sides' share of one certain outcome.

Sportsbook line
Cody Chovancek58% · -150
SuYoung You42% · +130
bar = implied chance, vig removed
Live · Polymarket
Cody Chovancek58% · -141
SuYoung You42% · +141
as of 2026-10-11T14:01:02Z · $348 liquidity

Line moves

What the market has done since it opened — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Cody ChovancekSuYoung YouPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Cody Chovancek vs SuYoung You — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Cody Chovancek and SuYoung You from Oct 10 to Oct 11, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Cody Chovancek moves from 58% to 58% and SuYoung You from 42% to 42%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.35%40%45%50%55%60%65%Oct 10 06:00Oct 10 14:00Oct 10 22:00Oct 11 06:00Oct 11 14:00▲ our call: Cody Chovancek58%42%

Since the open, the market has drifted toward our pick: Cody Chovancek's implied chance moved up from 58% to 58% (+0.5pp).

Show the numbers
SeriesOpenLowHighLatestMove
Cody Chovancek — sportsbook consensus58.0%58.0%58.0%58.0%−0.0pp
SuYoung You — sportsbook consensus42.0%42.0%42.0%42.0%−0.0pp
Cody Chovancek — Polymarket58.0%47.0%58.5%58.5%+0.5pp
SuYoung You — Polymarket42.0%41.5%53.0%41.5%−0.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 194 snapshots on file · window Oct 10 06:11–Oct 11 14:21Z · latest Oct 11, 14:21Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.

Tale of the tape

The facts, side by side — Cody Chovancek vs SuYoung You.

Red corner CodyChovancekNiagara Top Team · Hometown (per Sherdog): St. Catharines, Ontario
VSUpcoming
Blue corner SuYoungYou
Bantamweight3 roundsPicks published · graded in public after the card
The story
  • Carries 17 points more takedown defence than You.
  • Averages 4.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Chovancek.
9-0
Record
16-4
−2 yr28
Age
30
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
+2″67″
Reach
65″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
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.
All the vitals, as a table
—UFC recordUFC 3-1
9-0Pro record16-4
5' 8"Height5' 6"
67"Reach65"
SwitchStanceOrthodox
28Age30
135 lbs.Weight135 lbs.
CanadaNationality—
St. Catharines, OntarioHometown (per Sherdog)—
Niagara Top TeamCamp—
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.

FightIQ Metrics

Our read — not official stats. Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the fighter’s own weight class (the full roster where a division is too thin to rank in). The better score on each row is highlighted in that fighter's corner colour.

Cody ChovancekSuYoung You
64
Striking
50
60
Defence
91
n/a
Grappling / TD
63
n/a
Cardio
37
n/a
Chin
59
62
Fight IQ
60
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within weight class.

Strike zones

Strike zones

SuYoung You

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD68.6%ACC 44%BODY15.7%ACC 86%LEGS15.7%ACC 90%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 68.6% upstairs — +7.0 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.6% acc 44%+7.0 vs field
BODY
15.7% acc 86%−6.2 vs field
LEGS
15.7% acc 90%−0.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 86%CLINCH 12%GROUND 2%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

4 UFC fights · 121 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Cody Chovancek

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.26 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
9.06 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
47%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

SuYoung You

4.26takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

Stats comparison

Cody Chovancek (left) vs SuYoung You (right) — career striking & grappling rates.

Strikes landed / min
2.85
vs
2.15
Striking accuracy
50%
vs
47%
Strikes absorbed / min
2.46
vs
2.01
Striking defence
51%
vs
68%
Takedowns / 15 min
0
vs
4.26
Takedown accuracy
0%
vs
47%
Takedown defence
83%
vs
66%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0
vs
0.4
Career averages from public UFC statistics.

Bios

Who these two are — reported newsroom prose where we have it, our own data-built profile where we don’t. Each is labelled.

Cody ChovancekFightIQ profileAll-rounder

5' 8" switch all-rounder campaigning at Bantamweight.

Built from Cody Chovancek’s own fight record and striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →
SuYoung YouFightIQ profileWrestler

5' 6" orthodox wrestler campaigning at Bantamweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision.

Built from SuYoung You’s own fight record and striking and grappling figures, recomputed for this build. Full profile →

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