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History · 2017 · UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos · Glover Teixeira vs Misha Cirkunov
From the tape · 16 Dec 2017

Glover Teixeira vs Misha Cirkunov

UFC Fight Night: Lawler vs. Dos Anjos · Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Result

Glover Teixeira beat Misha Cirkunov

Method
KO/TKO
Round
1 of 3
Clock
2:45
Light HeavyweightMain 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.

GT
Red corner GloverTeixeiraTeixeira MMA & Fitness · Sobralia, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
MC
Blue corner MishaCirkunovXtreme Couture · Riga
Light Heavyweight3 rounds16 Dec 2017
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Cirkunov’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 8 more than Cirkunov.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Teixeira.
33-9
Record
15-9
38
Age
−8 yr30
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
76″
Reach
+1″77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+813
UFC bouts
5
7/978% of wins
Finishes
+22%4/4100% of wins
Teixeira MMA & Fitness
Gym
Xtreme Couture
Sobralia, Minas Gerais
From
Riga
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 12:45 of action1 sub attemptEnded 2:45
Glover Teixeira13 sig landed
HEAD92%12 of 19BODY8%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Misha Cirkunov21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 36BODY19%4 of 5LEGS10%2 of 2
13 of 21
Sig.
strikes
21 of 43
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:44
Control
0:11
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 7Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Glover Teixeira

Round
1
Clock
2:45
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Dan Miragliotta.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Glover Teixeira

2.11takedowns / 15 min
2.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.15 / 15m
6.39 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.64 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
39%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.70 / 15m

Misha Cirkunov

4.15takedowns / 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.

Glover Teixeira↓ −14.6pp
open 56.7%close 42.0%
Misha Cirkunov↑ +14.6pp
open 43.3%close 58.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Glover Teixeira opened at 56.7% and closed at 42.0% (−14.6pp), with Misha Cirkunov 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
Glover Teixeira-15513056.7%42.0%−14.6pp
Misha Cirkunov115-15043.3%58.0%+14.6pp
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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