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Events · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee · Merab Dvalishvili vs Ricky Simon
From the tape · 21 Apr 2018

Merab Dvalishvili vs Ricky Simon

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Lee · Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
Result

Ricky Simon beat Merab Dvalishvili

Method
Submission
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Liam Kerrigan

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.

Red corner MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RickySimonAmerican Top Team Portland · Vancouver, Washington
Bantamweight3 rounds21 Apr 2018
21-5
Record
22-7-1
27
Age
−2 yr25
5' 6"
Height
5' 6"
68″
Reach
+1″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
American Top Team Portland
Tbilisi
From
Vancouver, Washington
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Dvalishvili
Merab Dvalishvili25 sig landed
HEAD76%19 of 73BODY8%2 of 2LEGS16%4 of 4
Ricky Simon9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 30BODY22%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 79
Sig.
strikes
9 of 34
5 of 12
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:27
Control
0:06
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Merab Dvalishvili21 sig landed
HEAD62%13 of 63BODY14%3 of 4LEGS24%5 of 6
Ricky Simon20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 38BODY15%3 of 4LEGS10%2 of 2
21 of 73
Sig.
strikes
20 of 44
0 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:46
Control
0:33
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 1
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Merab Dvalishvili15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 49BODY20%3 of 6LEGS13%2 of 3
Ricky Simon5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 23BODY20%1 of 1LEGS20%1 of 1
15 of 58
Sig.
strikes
5 of 25
1 of 5
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:30
Control
2:06
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 13Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 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

Ricky Simon

Round
3
Clock
5:00
Method
Submission

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: Liam Kerrigan.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min
5.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.49 / 15m
17.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.95 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
41%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Ricky Simon

4.49takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Merab Dvalishvili↑ +16.1pp
open 33.9%close 50.0%
Ricky Simon↓ −16.1pp
open 66.1%close 50.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Merab Dvalishvili opened at 33.9% and closed at 50.0% (+16.1pp), with Ricky Simon 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
Merab Dvalishvili175-11033.9%50.0%+16.1pp
Ricky Simon-245-11066.1%50.0%−16.1pp
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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