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Events · UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Vladimir Matyushenko vs Igor Pokrajac
From the tape · 19 Sep 2009

Vladimir Matyushenko vs Igor Pokrajac

UFC 103: Franklin vs Belfort · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Vladimir Matyushenko beat Igor Pokrajac

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

VM
Red corner VladimirMatyushenko“The Janitor”VMAT · Retchisa
VSOn the tape
IP
Blue corner IgorPokrajac“The Duke”American Top Team · Zagreb
Light Heavyweight3 rounds19 Sep 2009
27-8
Record
28-13
38
Age
−8 yr30
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
VMAT
Gym
American Top Team
Retchisa
From
Zagreb
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. 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.

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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Vladimir Matyushenko13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 23BODY15%2 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Igor Pokrajac6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS33%2 of 4
13 of 26
Sig.
strikes
6 of 22
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:02
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 1
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Vladimir Matyushenko25 sig landed
HEAD88%22 of 55BODY4%1 of 1LEGS8%2 of 2
Igor Pokrajac4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
25 of 58
Sig.
strikes
4 of 18
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:39
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Vladimir Matyushenko6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Igor Pokrajac7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 21BODY29%2 of 2LEGS29%2 of 2
6 of 22
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
1 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:02
Control
0:38
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Leon Roberts
Official totals — Vladimir Matyushenko first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
David Douglas30–27

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

Media cards — 3 scored, Vladimir Matyushenko first · unofficial

MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AWeekly.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Matyushenko · 67%29-28 Matyushenko · 33%

3 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

Official cards come from the UFCStats fight record and MMA Decisions. Media cards and the fan vote are MMA Decisions’ own collection and are not official. Judge tendency figures are that judge’s whole recorded history, not this bout — they are context for how a card was scored, never a claim that it was scored wrongly.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Vladimir Matyushenko

3.25takedowns / 15 min
3.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.87 / 15m
7.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.00 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
29%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Igor Pokrajac

0.87takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Vladimir Matyushenko↑ +0.9pp
open 70.2%close 71.1%
Igor Pokrajac↓ −0.9pp
open 29.8%close 28.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vladimir Matyushenko opened at 70.2% and closed at 71.1% (+0.9pp), with Igor Pokrajac moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Vladimir Matyushenko-280-27570.2%71.1%+0.9pp
Igor Pokrajac22023529.8%28.9%−0.9pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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