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History · 2019 · UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith · Jeremy Stephens vs Zabit Magomedsharipov
From the tape · 2 Mar 2019

Jeremy Stephens vs Zabit Magomedsharipov

UFC 235: Jones vs. Smith · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Zabit Magomedsharipov beat Jeremy Stephens

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

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 JeremyStephens“Lil' Heathen”Alliance MMA · Des Moines, Iowa
VSOn the tape
ZM
Blue corner ZabitMagomedsharipovRicardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Featherweight3 rounds2 Mar 2019
The story going in
  • Has finished 8 of 15 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 29 UFC bouts deep — 25 more than Magomedsharipov.
  • Has finished 3 of 4 UFC wins.
29-23
Record
18-1
32
Age
−4 yr28
5' 9"
Height
+4″6' 1"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+2529
UFC bouts
4
8/1553% of wins
Finishes
+22%3/475% of wins
Alliance MMA
Gym
Ricardo Almeida Jiu-Jitsu
Des Moines, Iowa
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
Jeremy Stephens10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 14BODY30%3 of 5LEGS50%5 of 7
Zabit Magomedsharipov16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 19BODY25%4 of 5LEGS38%6 of 7
10 of 26
Sig.
strikes
16 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jeremy Stephens6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 21BODY17%1 of 1LEGS33%2 of 3
Zabit Magomedsharipov26 sig landed
HEAD69%18 of 30BODY15%4 of 6LEGS15%4 of 5
6 of 25
Sig.
strikes
26 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 5
0:00
Control
2:36
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 9
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jeremy Stephens25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 57BODY28%7 of 10LEGS12%3 of 3
Zabit Magomedsharipov28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 46BODY14%4 of 6LEGS18%5 of 5
25 of 70
Sig.
strikes
28 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:01
Control
0:02
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stephens firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Jeremy StephensZabit Magomedsharipov
Official totals — Jeremy Stephens first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 22 scored, Jeremy Stephens first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com27–29
Greg Rosenstein ESPN.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Adam Martin Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–29
Steven Kelliher Tapology.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Nolan King FloCombat28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Mike Straus MMAJA28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Magomedsharipov · 64%29-28 Stephens · 12%30-27 Magomedsharipov · 12%29-27 Magomedsharipov · 6%

153 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.

Jeremy Stephens

1.10takedowns / 15 min
1.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.22 / 15m
2.89 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.32 / 15m
38%
ACCURACY
56%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Zabit Magomedsharipov

5.22takedowns / 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.

Jeremy Stephens↓ −1.6pp
open 29.4%close 27.8%
Zabit Magomedsharipov↑ +1.6pp
open 70.6%close 72.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jeremy Stephens opened at 29.4% and closed at 27.8% (−1.6pp), with Zabit Magomedsharipov 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
Jeremy Stephens22024629.4%27.8%−1.6pp
Zabit Magomedsharipov-300-30270.6%72.2%+1.6pp
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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