Yara Kakish

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• ▸ Across 12 recorded matches, Kakish shows a submission win rate of 25 percent, below the site average of 40 percent. That tracks with her win breakdown, where each of her 4 wins came by a different method: points, penalty, decision, and submission.
• ▸ Kakish competes almost entirely in the gi, with 11 of her 12 recorded matches in the gi and 1 unknown. Her recorded results run from 2019 to 2024.
• ▸ She was most active in 2019, with 5 matches on record that year. Several of her recorded events cluster in Abu Dhabi, including three appearances each at the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam, the 2021 Abu Dhabi World Professional Championship, and the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam.
• ▸ Of her 8 recorded losses, 4 came by submission, so half her defeats ended with a tap. On the other side, her one recorded submission win was over Veronica Macedo at the 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Slam.
• ▸ Her win over Maja Posvnar at the 2021 Abu Dhabi World Professional Championship came by penalty, one of the more unusual ways to close out a match and a sign of tight, grinding exchanges.