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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · Fabricio Werdum vs Alexander Volkov
From the tape · 17 Mar 2018

Fabricio Werdum vs Alexander Volkov

UFC Fight Night: Werdum vs. Volkov · London, England, United Kingdom
Result

Alexander Volkov beat Fabricio Werdum

Method
KO/TKO
Round
4 of 5
Clock
1:38
HeavyweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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.

FW
Red corner FabricioWerdum“Vai Cavalo”Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlexanderVolkov“Drago”Strela Team · Moscow
Heavyweight5 rounds17 Mar 2018
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 7 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Carries 37 points more takedown defence than Werdum.
24-9-1
Record
40-11
40
Age
−11 yr29
6' 4"
Height
+3″6' 7"
77″
Reach
+3″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1215
UFC bouts
3
+30%7/1164% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
From
Moscow
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

4 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Fabricio Werdum20 sig landed
HEAD85%17 of 33BODY10%2 of 3LEGS5%1 of 1
Alexander Volkov15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 23BODY27%4 of 4LEGS7%1 of 1
20 of 37
Sig.
strikes
15 of 28
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:50
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 5
Round 25:00 of action
Fabricio Werdum14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 14BODY43%6 of 6LEGS14%2 of 4
Alexander Volkov3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY0%0 of 1LEGS33%1 of 2
14 of 24
Sig.
strikes
3 of 9
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:26
Control
0:08
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 35:00 of action
Fabricio Werdum10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 9BODY30%3 of 4LEGS20%2 of 2
Alexander Volkov13 sig landed
HEAD77%10 of 27BODY15%2 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
10 of 15
Sig.
strikes
13 of 32
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:24
Control
0:45
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 2
Round 41:38 of action⚡ 1 KD VolkovEnded 1:38
Fabricio Werdum4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 10BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
Alexander Volkov17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 19BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 12
Sig.
strikes
17 of 21
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:48
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 6

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

Alexander Volkov

Round
4
Clock
1:38
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: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Fabricio Werdum

1.75takedowns / 15 min
1.75 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.54 / 15m
5.65 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.87 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
62%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Alexander Volkov

0.54takedowns / 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.

Fabricio Werdum↓ −0.9pp
open 66.1%close 65.2%
Alexander Volkov↑ +0.9pp
open 33.9%close 34.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Fabricio Werdum opened at 66.1% and closed at 65.2% (−0.9pp), with Alexander Volkov 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
Fabricio Werdum-245-21066.1%65.2%−0.9pp
Alexander Volkov17517733.9%34.8%+0.9pp
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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