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History · 2014 · Viktor Pesta vs Ruslan Magomedov
From the tape · 31 May 2014

Viktor Pesta vs Ruslan Magomedov

Result

Ruslan Magomedov beat Viktor Pesta

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

VP
Red corner ViktorPestaKill Cliff FC · Prague
VSOn the tape
RM
Blue corner RuslanMagomedov“Leopard”Fight Club Berkut · Dagestan
Heavyweight3 rounds31 May 2014
The story going in
  • Averages 3.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Magomedov.
  • Lands 2.4 more significant strikes a minute than Pesta.
10-4
Record
14-1
−4 yr23
Age
27
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
77″
Reach
+1″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Fight Club Berkut
Prague
From
Dagestan
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Viktor Pesta14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 31BODY29%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Ruslan Magomedov12 sig landed
HEAD67%8 of 29BODY17%2 of 2LEGS17%2 of 2
14 of 35
Sig.
strikes
12 of 33
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:31
Control
0:05
Distance 5Clinch 4Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Pesta firstAndy Haigh10–9Howard Hughes10–9Takeo Kobayashi10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Viktor Pesta5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 28BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Ruslan Magomedov16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 36BODY12%2 of 2LEGS12%2 of 2
5 of 29
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pesta firstAndy Haigh9–10Howard Hughes9–10Takeo Kobayashi9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Viktor Pesta7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 18BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Ruslan Magomedov19 sig landed
HEAD84%16 of 38BODY5%1 of 2LEGS11%2 of 4
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
19 of 44
0 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pesta firstAndy Haigh9–10Howard Hughes9–10Takeo Kobayashi9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Viktor PestaRuslan Magomedov
Official totals — Viktor Pesta first
JudgeTotal
Andy Haigh28–29
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Takeo Kobayashi28–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 10 scored, Viktor Pesta first · unofficial

Adam Martin MMAOddsbreaker.com28–29
Sean Smith BleacherReport.com28–29
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Cage Pages.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Greg Savage Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Brent Brookhouse BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Magomedov · 80%29-28 Pesta · 13%

15 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.

Viktor Pesta

3.29takedowns / 15 min
3.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.33 / 15m
11.75 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.33 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
100%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ruslan Magomedov

0.33takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Viktor Pesta↑ +2.3pp
open 35.6%close 37.9%
Ruslan Magomedov↓ −2.3pp
open 64.4%close 62.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Viktor Pesta opened at 35.6% and closed at 37.9% (+2.3pp), with Ruslan Magomedov 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
Viktor Pesta16515735.6%37.9%+2.3pp
Ruslan Magomedov-215-17564.4%62.1%−2.3pp
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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