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History · 2015 · UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Omari Akhmedov vs Mats Nilsson
From the tape · 3 Jan 2015

Omari Akhmedov vs Mats Nilsson

UFC 182: Jones vs Cormier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Omari Akhmedov beat Mats Nilsson

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Yves Lavigne

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.

OA
Red corner OmariAkhmedov“Wolverine”American Top Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
MN
Blue corner MatsNilssonRumble Sports · Helsingborg
Welterweight3 rounds3 Jan 2015
The story going in
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Nilsson.
  • Averages 1.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Akhmedov.
21-6-1
Record
11-4-1
−4 yr27
Age
31
6' 0"
Height
+1″6' 1"
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+12
UFC bouts
1
American Top Team
Gym
Rumble Sports
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Helsingborg
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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
Omari Akhmedov32 sig landed
HEAD59%19 of 66BODY34%11 of 16LEGS6%2 of 3
Mats Nilsson8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 28BODY12%1 of 1LEGS38%3 of 3
32 of 85
Sig.
strikes
8 of 32
2 of 4
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:51
Control
1:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 2Ground 10
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Omari Akhmedov20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 57BODY5%1 of 3LEGS10%2 of 2
Mats Nilsson16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 33BODY12%2 of 2LEGS19%3 of 3
20 of 62
Sig.
strikes
16 of 38
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 1Ground 7
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Omari Akhmedov12 sig landed
HEAD100%12 of 37BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mats Nilsson9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 17BODY22%2 of 2LEGS33%3 of 3
12 of 37
Sig.
strikes
9 of 22
0 of 2
Take-
downs
3 of 4
1:02
Control
1:40
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Yves Lavigne
Omari AkhmedovMats Nilsson
Official totals — Omari Akhmedov first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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 — 17 scored, Omari Akhmedov first · unofficial

Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Luke Thomas MMAFighting.com29–28
Wrestling Observer29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Fergus O' Farrell Setanta29–28
Severe MMA.com29–28
Cage Pages.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alexandre Matos MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Jason Floyd TheMMAReport.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Akhmedov · 81%29-28 Nilsson · 6%

16 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.

Omari Akhmedov

2.58takedowns / 15 min
2.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.87 / 15m
5.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.66 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
83%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
2.30 / 15m

Mats Nilsson

3.87takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Omari Akhmedov↑ +11.9pp
open 52.9%close 64.8%
Mats Nilsson↓ −11.9pp
open 47.1%close 35.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Omari Akhmedov opened at 52.9% and closed at 64.8% (+11.9pp), with Mats Nilsson 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
Omari Akhmedov-135-19752.9%64.8%+11.9pp
Mats Nilsson-10517747.1%35.2%−11.9pp
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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