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History · 2018 · UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Warlley Alves vs Sultan Aliev
From the tape · 12 May 2018

Warlley Alves vs Sultan Aliev

UFC 224: Nunes vs. Pennington · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Result

Warlley Alves beat Sultan Aliev

Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage
Round
2 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Osiris Maia

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 WarlleyAlvesRizzo RVT · Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
SA
Blue corner SultanAlievAmerican Top Team · Derbent, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds12 May 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Carries 38 points more takedown defence than Alves.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Aliev.
15-8
Record
15-3
−6 yr27
Age
33
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+2″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+57
UFC bouts
2
3/560% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Rizzo RVT
Gym
American Top Team
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
From
Derbent, 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Warlley Alves21 sig landed
HEAD14%3 of 8BODY48%10 of 12LEGS38%8 of 8
Sultan Aliev8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 15BODY12%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
21 of 28
Sig.
strikes
8 of 17
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:58
Control
0:55
Distance 8Clinch 13Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 25:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Warlley Alves8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 12BODY25%2 of 7LEGS25%2 of 3
Sultan Aliev4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 9BODY25%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 22
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:26
Control
1:12
Distance 2Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 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

Warlley Alves

Round
2
Clock
5:00
Method
TKO - Doctor's Stoppage

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: Osiris Maia.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Warlley Alves

1.22takedowns / 15 min
1.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.76 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.63 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
38%
0.80 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Sultan Aliev

1.76takedowns / 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.

Warlley Alves↑ +4.2pp
open 66.9%close 71.1%
Sultan Aliev↓ −4.2pp
open 33.1%close 28.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Warlley Alves opened at 66.9% and closed at 71.1% (+4.2pp), with Sultan Aliev 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
Warlley Alves-260-27566.9%71.1%+4.2pp
Sultan Aliev18023533.1%28.9%−4.2pp
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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