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Events · UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smith · Vitor Miranda vs Abu Azaitar
From the tape · 22 Jul 2018

Vitor Miranda vs Abu Azaitar

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

Abu Azaitar beat Vitor Miranda

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Kevin Sataki

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.

VM
Red corner VitorMiranda“Lex Luthor”Team Nogueira · Joinville, Santa Catarina
VSOn the tape
AA
Blue corner AbuAzaitar“Captain Morocco”Team Azaitar · Rabat
Middleweight3 rounds22 Jul 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Miranda.
  • Every one of Miranda’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
12-5
Record
14-4-1
39
Age
−7 yr32
+4″6' 1"
Height
5' 9"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Team Nogueira
Gym
Team Azaitar
Joinville, Santa Catarina
From
Rabat
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 — 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
Vitor Miranda7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 15BODY14%1 of 1LEGS43%3 of 4
Abu Azaitar25 sig landed
HEAD56%14 of 51BODY28%7 of 11LEGS16%4 of 4
7 of 20
Sig.
strikes
25 of 66
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:31
Control
0:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Miranda firstAndreas Grüner9–10Takeo Kobayashi9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Vitor Miranda10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 11BODY10%1 of 4LEGS30%3 of 3
Abu Azaitar15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 47BODY20%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
15 of 50
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:08
Control
1:21
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Miranda firstAndreas Grüner9–10Takeo Kobayashi9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Vitor Miranda2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 6BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Abu Azaitar8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 11BODY12%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 7
Sig.
strikes
8 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
2:17
Control
1:52
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Miranda firstAndreas Grüner9–10Takeo Kobayashi9–10David Lethaby10–9

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 · Kevin Sataki
Vitor MirandaAbu Azaitar
Official totals — Vitor Miranda first
JudgeTotal
Andreas Grüner2.4 avg spread · 68% wide27–30
Takeo Kobayashi27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 14 scored, Vitor Miranda first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
Matheus Costa MMABrasil.com.br28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Azaitar · 39%29-28 Azaitar · 28%29-28 Miranda · 17%30-24 Azaitar · 6%30-27 Miranda · 6%

18 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.

Vitor Miranda

0.95takedowns / 15 min
0.95 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
1.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.70 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
37%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Abu Azaitar

1.00takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Vitor Miranda↓ −6.3pp
open 41.7%close 35.4%
Abu Azaitar↑ +6.3pp
open 58.3%close 64.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Vitor Miranda opened at 41.7% and closed at 35.4% (−6.3pp), with Abu Azaitar 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
Vitor Miranda12517241.7%35.4%−6.3pp
Abu Azaitar-165-20558.3%64.6%+6.3pp
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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