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History · 2018 · UFC Fight Night: Hunt vs. Oleinik · Merab Dvalishvili vs Terrion Ware
From the tape · 15 Sep 2018

Merab Dvalishvili vs Terrion Ware

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

Merab Dvalishvili beat Terrion Ware

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Kiselev Viacheslav

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
TW
Blue corner TerrionWare“Flash”Fight Science · Hawthorne, California
Bantamweight3 rounds15 Sep 2018
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 5.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ware.
21-5
Record
17-9
−5 yr27
Age
32
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
68″
Reach
+3″71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+13
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Fight Science
Tbilisi
From
Hawthorne, California
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
Merab Dvalishvili22 sig landed
HEAD100%22 of 49BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Terrion Ware2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 5BODY50%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 49
Sig.
strikes
2 of 7
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:01
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 19
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstBen Cartlidge10–8David Lethaby10–8Maciej Motylewski10–8
Round 25:00 of action
Merab Dvalishvili9 sig landed
HEAD44%4 of 30BODY11%1 of 2LEGS44%4 of 6
Terrion Ware2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 16BODY100%2 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
9 of 38
Sig.
strikes
2 of 20
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Maciej Motylewski10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Merab Dvalishvili31 sig landed
HEAD81%25 of 70BODY13%4 of 6LEGS6%2 of 2
Terrion Ware4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
31 of 78
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:33
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 29
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstBen Cartlidge10–8David Lethaby10–8Maciej Motylewski10–8

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 · Kiselev Viacheslav
Merab DvalishviliTerrion Ware
Official totals — Merab Dvalishvili first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–25
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–25
Maciej Motylewski30–25

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, Merab Dvalishvili first · unofficial

Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–24
Matheus Costa MMABrasil.com.br30–25
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–25
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–25
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–25
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com30–26
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–26
MM AMania.com30–26
Nolan King MMA- Today.com30–26
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-25 Dvalishvili · 57%30-24 Dvalishvili · 29%30-26 Dvalishvili · 5%29-25 Dvalishvili · 5%30-27 Dvalishvili · 5%

21 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.

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min
5.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.50 / 15m
17.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.27 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
22%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Terrion Ware

0.50takedowns / 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↑ +8.6pp
open 73.1%close 81.7%
Terrion Ware↓ −8.6pp
open 26.9%close 18.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Merab Dvalishvili opened at 73.1% and closed at 81.7% (+8.6pp), with Terrion Ware 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 Dvalishvili-350-55573.1%81.7%+8.6pp
Terrion Ware25042726.9%18.3%−8.6pp
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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