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Events · UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Arjan Bhullar vs Marcelo Golm
From the tape · 27 Oct 2018

Arjan Bhullar vs Marcelo Golm

UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith · Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Result

Arjan Bhullar beat Marcelo Golm

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Eric Nevitt

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.

AB
Red corner ArjanBhullar
VSOn the tape
MG
Blue corner MarceloGolmPitangueiras, Sao Paulo
Heavyweight3 rounds27 Oct 2018
The story going in
  • Carries 14 points more striking defence than Golm.
  • Lands 1.9 more significant strikes a minute than Bhullar.
9-1
Record
6-3
32
Age
−6 yr26
6' 1"
Height
+2″6' 3"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
2
0/10% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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
Arjan Bhullar21 sig landed
HEAD90%19 of 35BODY10%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Marcelo Golm23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 29BODY13%3 of 4LEGS52%12 of 12
21 of 37
Sig.
strikes
23 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:37
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bhullar firstEmile Arsenault10–9James Locke10–9Declan Woods10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Arjan Bhullar12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 19BODY17%2 of 2LEGS25%3 of 4
Marcelo Golm16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 23BODY31%5 of 7LEGS25%4 of 5
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
16 of 35
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:17
Control
0:28
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bhullar firstEmile Arsenault9–10James Locke9–10Declan Woods9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Arjan Bhullar14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Marcelo Golm4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 22
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:04
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Bhullar firstEmile Arsenault10–9James Locke10–8Declan Woods10–9

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 · Eric Nevitt
Arjan BhullarMarcelo Golm
Official totals — Arjan Bhullar first
JudgeTotal
Emile Arsenault29–28
James Locke29–27
Declan Woods29–28

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 — 15 scored, Arjan Bhullar first · unofficial

Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Sean Ross Sapp Fightful.com29–28
Felipe Freitas MMABrasil.com.br29–28
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Keith Shillan TheMMATakeover.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com29–28
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Chris Nelson Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Bhullar · 68%30-27 Bhullar · 10%29-28 Golm · 5%

19 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.

Arjan Bhullar

1.73takedowns / 15 min
1.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.45 / 15m
2.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.90 / 15m
75%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Marcelo Golm

0.45takedowns / 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.

Arjan Bhullar↓ −0.8pp
open 59.9%close 59.1%
Marcelo Golm↑ +0.8pp
open 40.1%close 40.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Arjan Bhullar opened at 59.9% and closed at 59.1% (−0.8pp), with Marcelo Golm 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
Arjan Bhullar-175-16059.9%59.1%−0.8pp
Marcelo Golm13513540.1%40.9%+0.8pp
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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