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History · 2016 · UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson · Chris Wade vs Islam Makhachev
From the tape · 17 Sep 2016

Chris Wade vs Islam Makhachev

UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson · Hidalgo, Texas, USA
Result

Islam Makhachev beat Chris Wade

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

CW
Red corner ChrisWadeLong Island, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IslamMakhachevMakhachkala, Dagestan
Lightweight3 rounds17 Sep 2016
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Carries 36 points more takedown defence than Wade.
12-3
Record
29-1
28
Age
−4 yr24
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+35
UFC bouts
2
2/450% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Long Island, New York
From
Makhachkala, Dagestan
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 action2 sub attempts
Chris Wade4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 4BODY0%0 of 1LEGS50%2 of 2
Islam Makhachev2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 4BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
2 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:15
Control
1:02
0
Sub
attempts
2
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Wade firstAdriana Beltran10–9Guadalupe Chapa10–9Hector Maldonado10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Chris Wade0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 7 thrown

Islam Makhachev7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 3BODY71%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 7
Sig.
strikes
7 of 8
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:40
Control
3:40
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Wade firstAdriana Beltran9–10Guadalupe Chapa9–10Hector Maldonado9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Chris Wade1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 of 1LEGS100%1 of 1
Islam Makhachev3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 5BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
1 of 3
Sig.
strikes
3 of 6
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:10
Control
4:13
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Wade firstAdriana Beltran9–10Guadalupe Chapa9–10Hector Maldonado9–10

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Chris WadeIslam Makhachev
Official totals — Chris Wade first
JudgeTotal
Adriana Beltran28–29
Guadalupe Chapa28–29
Hector Maldonado28–29

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 — 16 scored, Chris Wade first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Nick Baldwin BloodyElbow.com27–30
Matthew Wells mmalatestnews.com27–30
Felipe Freitas mmabrasil.com.br27–30
MM AForum.com.br27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Craig Amos BleacherReport.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–30
Combat Press.com28–29
Jim Edwards MMALatestNews.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jordan Breen Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Makhachev · 45%30-27 Makhachev · 37%29-28 Wade · 7%29-27 Makhachev · 3%30-28 Wade · 2%

60 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.

Chris Wade

2.60takedowns / 15 min
2.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.10 / 15m
5.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.54 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
56%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Islam Makhachev

3.10takedowns / 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.

Chris Wade↓ −4.7pp
open 50.0%close 45.3%
Islam Makhachev↑ +4.7pp
open 50.0%close 54.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chris Wade opened at 50.0% and closed at 45.3% (−4.7pp), with Islam Makhachev 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
Chris Wade-12011250.0%45.3%−4.7pp
Islam Makhachev-120-13250.0%54.7%+4.7pp
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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