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Events · UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith · Khalid Taha vs Nad Narimani
From the tape · 22 Jul 2018

Khalid Taha vs Nad Narimani

UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Result

Nad Narimani beat Khalid Taha

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · 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.

KT
Red corner KhalidTaha“The Warrior”Arena Dortmund · Dortmund
VSOn the tape
NN
Blue corner NadNarimani“Smiler”Team Alpha Male · Bristol
Featherweight3 rounds22 Jul 2018
13-5
Record
12-4
−5 yr26
Age
31
5' 5"
Height
+3″5' 8"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Arena Dortmund
Gym
Team Alpha Male
Dortmund
From
Bristol
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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 action
Khalid Taha11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 12BODY9%1 of 1LEGS36%4 of 4
Nad Narimani12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 17BODY25%3 of 7LEGS17%2 of 2
11 of 17
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 4
0:12
Control
3:04
Distance 8Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Taha firstBen Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner9–10Pawel Harasim9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Khalid Taha15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 19BODY13%2 of 4LEGS7%1 of 3
Nad Narimani26 sig landed
HEAD92%24 of 31BODY4%1 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
15 of 26
Sig.
strikes
26 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
3:22
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 5Ground 14
Judges · this round · Taha firstBen Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner9–10Pawel Harasim9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Khalid Taha6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nad Narimani7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 8BODY14%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 14
Sig.
strikes
7 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:23
Control
3:41
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Taha firstBen Cartlidge9–10Andreas Grüner9–10Pawel Harasim9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Khalid TahaNad Narimani
Official totals — Khalid Taha first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide27–30
Pawel Harasim2.5 avg spread · 72% wide27–30

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 — 17 scored, Khalid Taha first · unofficial

Chris Connor The Fight City25–30
Mike Straus MMAJA27–30
Matheus Costa MMABrasil.com.br27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–30
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–30
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Matthew Wells FanSided.com27–30
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Narimani · 100%

11 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.

Khalid Taha

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.92 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.68 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
41%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nad Narimani

1.92takedowns / 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.

Khalid Taha↓ −3.4pp
open 35.6%close 32.2%
Nad Narimani↑ +3.4pp
open 64.4%close 67.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Khalid Taha opened at 35.6% and closed at 32.2% (−3.4pp), with Nad Narimani 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
Khalid Taha16519935.6%32.2%−3.4pp
Nad Narimani-215-23964.4%67.8%+3.4pp
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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