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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik · Andrei Arlovski vs Shamil Abdurakhimov
From the tape · 15 Sep 2018

Andrei Arlovski vs Shamil Abdurakhimov

UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik · Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Result

Shamil Abdurakhimov beat Andrei Arlovski

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

AA
Red corner AndreiArlovski“The Pitbull”American Top Team · Minsk
VSOn the tape
SA
Blue corner ShamilAbdurakhimov“Abrek”Peresvet Fight Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Heavyweight3 rounds15 Sep 2018
The story going in
  • Has finished 11 of 16 UFC wins.
  • 26 UFC bouts deep — 21 more than Abdurakhimov.
34-24
Record
20-8
39
Age
−2 yr37
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2126
UFC bouts
5
+35%11/1669% of wins
Finishes
1/333% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Peresvet Fight Team
Minsk
From
Makhachkala, 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 — 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
Andrei Arlovski9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 16BODY33%3 of 3LEGS33%3 of 3
Shamil Abdurakhimov5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 13BODY40%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
9 of 22
Sig.
strikes
5 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
2:00
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 2
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Maria Makhmutova9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Andrei Arlovski5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 13BODY40%2 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
Shamil Abdurakhimov16 sig landed
HEAD75%12 of 17BODY19%3 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
5 of 17
Sig.
strikes
16 of 23
2 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:19
Control
1:25
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 12
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Maria Makhmutova9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Andrei Arlovski4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 16BODY25%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Shamil Abdurakhimov11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 20BODY36%4 of 8LEGS27%3 of 3
4 of 19
Sig.
strikes
11 of 31
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Arlovski firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10Maria Makhmutova10–9

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 · Leon Roberts
Andrei ArlovskiShamil Abdurakhimov
Official totals — Andrei Arlovski first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Maria Makhmutova28–29

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 — 13 scored, Andrei Arlovski first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Rafael Oreiro MMABrasil.com.br27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Sherdog.com28–30
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nolan King MMA- Today.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–29
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Abdurakhimov · 38%29-28 Abdurakhimov · 31%29-28 Arlovski · 16%30-28 Abdurakhimov · 6%

32 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.

Andrei Arlovski

0.37takedowns / 15 min
0.37 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.01 / 15m
1.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.39 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
23%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Shamil Abdurakhimov

1.01takedowns / 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.

Andrei Arlovski↓ −19.8pp
open 64.4%close 44.5%
Shamil Abdurakhimov↑ +19.8pp
open 35.6%close 55.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Andrei Arlovski opened at 64.4% and closed at 44.5% (−19.8pp), with Shamil Abdurakhimov 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
Andrei Arlovski-21511664.4%44.5%−19.8pp
Shamil Abdurakhimov165-13635.6%55.5%+19.8pp
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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