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History · 2015 · UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant · Zubaira Tukhugov vs Phillipe Nover
From the tape · 10 Dec 2015

Zubaira Tukhugov vs Phillipe Nover

UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. VanZant · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Zubaira Tukhugov beat Phillipe Nover

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

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Red corner ZubairaTukhugov“Warrior”Tiger Muay Thai · Grozny, Chechnya
VSOn the tape
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Blue corner PhillipeNover“The Filipino Assassin”Team Renzo Gracie · Brooklyn, New York
Featherweight3 rounds10 Dec 2015
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 56 points more takedown defence than Nover.
20-6-1
Record
11-8-1
−7 yr24
Age
31
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
68″
Reach
+4″72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+24
1/250% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Tiger Muay Thai
Gym
Team Renzo Gracie
Grozny, Chechnya
From
Brooklyn, New York
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
Zubaira Tukhugov6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 22BODY33%2 of 5LEGS17%1 of 1
Phillipe Nover3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 25BODY33%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 28
Sig.
strikes
3 of 30
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:05
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tukhugov firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Zubaira Tukhugov10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 31BODY0%0 of 2LEGS10%1 of 1
Phillipe Nover9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 11BODY78%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 34
Sig.
strikes
9 of 19
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tukhugov firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Zubaira Tukhugov5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 17BODY20%1 of 2LEGS20%1 of 2
Phillipe Nover8 sig landed
HEAD25%2 of 14BODY62%5 of 12LEGS12%1 of 2
5 of 21
Sig.
strikes
8 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:26
Control
0:21
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tukhugov firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Dave Hagen10–9Roy Silbert10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mark Smith
Zubaira TukhugovPhillipe Nover
Official totals — Zubaira Tukhugov first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Roy Silbert2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27

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 — 13 scored, Zubaira Tukhugov first · unofficial

Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com30–27
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com30–27
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
John Pollock Fight Network29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Jeff Sherwood Sherdog.com29–28
Dallas Winston BloodyElbow.com29–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Tukhugov · 82%29-28 Tukhugov · 9%30-28 Tukhugov · 4%

22 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.

Zubaira Tukhugov

2.13takedowns / 15 min
2.13 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.99 / 15m
5.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.54 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Phillipe Nover

0.99takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Zubaira Tukhugov↑ +13.4pp
open 62.1%close 75.5%
Phillipe Nover↓ −13.4pp
open 37.9%close 24.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Zubaira Tukhugov opened at 62.1% and closed at 75.5% (+13.4pp), with Phillipe Nover 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
Zubaira Tukhugov-190-35762.1%75.5%+13.4pp
Phillipe Nover15029537.9%24.5%−13.4pp
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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