UFC Fight Night: Marcin Tybura vs. Aleksandar Rakic (Heavyweight, Main Card)

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Market context

Marcin Tybura versus Aleksandar Rakić is a heavyweight bout scheduled for UFC Fight Night, with the market resolving on the official UFC result and a 50-50 outcome if the contest is cancelled, declared a no contest, or otherwise not scored by the cut-off. The current crowd-implied **24% YES** looks like a clear underdog price, which matters for programmatic traders because the settlement rules make the binary path dependent on the UFC’s official declaration rather than any media scorecards or live feeds.

The fight can be read through comparable UFC stats rather than the market line alone. Tybura has a higher recorded UFC volume profile, with 3.56 significant strikes landed per minute and 1.30 takedowns per 15 minutes, while Rakić has stronger takedown defence at 86% and lands 4.13 significant strikes per minute[1][2]. Both men also have similar average fight times near 11 minutes, which points to a fight that can go long enough for decision variance to matter, but still carries stoppage risk because both have meaningful KO/TKO rates in their win records[2][4][6].

For a bot or conditional-order workflow, the main catalysts are event confirmation, weigh-in and bout-sheet changes, and any late pull-outs that push the fight beyond the settlement window or into a no-contest path. Odds pages published on 31 July 2026 show Rakić priced as the favourite across markets, which is consistent with the low YES price and with his recent negative form notes in preview coverage[10][16][14]. Programmatically, the cleanest approach is to monitor UFC event status, final bout order, and post-fight official result posts, then treat any cancellation or rescheduling past 15 August as an automatic non-fight settlement case rather than a prediction on the winner[14][16].

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Methodology

This page is a comparison snapshot: one live quote, four reference venues with their key attributes, and a single execution path — every trade button routes to Polymarket Bot UK, which mirrors the Polymarket order book directly.

Resolution & payout

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FAQ

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How does resolution work?

Through the UMA Optimistic Oracle on Polygon: a proposer submits the outcome, a two-hour challenge window opens, and USDC payouts settle automatically once the result is final.

How fast are USDC deposits?

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