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History · 2014 · UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson · Ruslan Magomedov vs Josh Copeland
From the tape · 22 Nov 2014

Ruslan Magomedov vs Josh Copeland

UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs Swanson · Austin, Texas, USA
Result

Ruslan Magomedov beat Josh Copeland

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

RM
Red corner RuslanMagomedov“Leopard”Fight Club Berkut · Dagestan
VSOn the tape
JC
Blue corner JoshCopeland“Cuddly Bear”Grudge Training Center · Denver, Colorado
Heavyweight3 rounds22 Nov 2014
14-1
Record
12-4
−5 yr27
Age
32
+2″6' 3"
Height
6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Fight Club Berkut
Gym
Grudge Training Center
Dagestan
From
Denver, Colorado
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 — 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⚡ 1 KD Magomedov
Ruslan Magomedov18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 43BODY11%2 of 3LEGS22%4 of 4
Josh Copeland5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 17BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 50
Sig.
strikes
5 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Magomedov firstJennie Cardenas10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Nick Wright10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ruslan Magomedov25 sig landed
HEAD52%13 of 39BODY32%8 of 10LEGS16%4 of 6
Josh Copeland9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 16BODY11%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 55
Sig.
strikes
9 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Magomedov firstJennie Cardenas10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Nick Wright9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ruslan Magomedov20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 23BODY50%10 of 12LEGS25%5 of 5
Josh Copeland6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 12BODY67%4 of 7LEGS17%1 of 1
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
6 of 20
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Magomedov firstJennie Cardenas10–9Marcos Rosales10–9Nick Wright10–9

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 · Kerry Hatley
Ruslan MagomedovJosh Copeland
Official totals — Ruslan Magomedov first
JudgeTotal
Jennie Cardenas30–27
Marcos Rosales2.2 avg spread · 51% wide30–27
Nick Wright29–28

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 — 11 scored, Ruslan Magomedov first · unofficial

Severe MMA.com30–27
Cage Pages.com30–27
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Wrestling Observer30–27
Felipe Freitas mmabrasil.com.br30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Jesse Holland MMAMania.com30–27
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Magomedov · 100%

9 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.

Ruslan Magomedov

0.33takedowns / 15 min
0.33 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
0.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
100%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Josh Copeland

0.00takedowns / 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.

Ruslan Magomedov↑ +6.1pp
open 63.8%close 69.9%
Josh Copeland↓ −6.1pp
open 36.2%close 30.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ruslan Magomedov opened at 63.8% and closed at 69.9% (+6.1pp), with Josh Copeland 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
Ruslan Magomedov-210-25363.8%69.9%+6.1pp
Josh Copeland16022436.2%30.1%−6.1pp
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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