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Events · UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Max Griffin vs Zelim Imadaev
From the tape · 13 Apr 2019

Max Griffin vs Zelim Imadaev

UFC 236: Holloway vs. Poirier 2 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Result

Max Griffin beat Zelim Imadaev

Method
Decision - Majority
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · George Allen

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 MaxGriffin“Pain”MMA Gold Fight Team · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
ZI
Blue corner ZelimImadaevMoscow
Welterweight3 rounds13 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 15 points more striking defence than Imadaev.
20-13
Record
8-3
33
Age
−9 yr24
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
76″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Sacramento, California
From
Moscow
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 action3 sub attempts
Max Griffin12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 11BODY33%4 of 5LEGS8%1 of 1
Zelim Imadaev12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 19BODY25%3 of 4LEGS17%2 of 3
12 of 17
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:33
Control
1:14
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichael Bell10–8Derek Cleary10–8Will Fisher10–8
Round 25:00 of action
Max Griffin14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 26BODY29%4 of 5LEGS14%2 of 2
Zelim Imadaev25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 44BODY24%6 of 12LEGS8%2 of 2
14 of 33
Sig.
strikes
25 of 58
2 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:27
Control
1:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 12Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Will Fisher9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Max Griffin21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 28BODY38%8 of 9LEGS24%5 of 5
Zelim Imadaev27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 57BODY11%3 of 6LEGS7%2 of 3
21 of 42
Sig.
strikes
27 of 66
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:59
Control
1:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Griffin firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Will Fisher10–9

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

Majority Decision

Referee · George Allen
Max GriffinZelim Imadaev
Official totals — Max Griffin first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–27
Will Fisher29–27

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 — 16 scored, Max Griffin first · unofficial

Mike Straus MMAJA29–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com29–27
Cole Shelton Sherdog.com29–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–28
MM ABrasil.com.br28–28
Keith Shillan FanSided.com28–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–28
Mookie Alexander BloodyElbow.com28–28
MM AMania.com28–28
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com28–28
MM AJunkie.com28–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Griffin · 21%29-28 Griffin · 3%29-27 Imadaev · 3%29-26 Griffin · 1%

70 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.

Max Griffin

1.44takedowns / 15 min
1.44 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.38 / 15m
3.51 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.76 / 15m
41%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Zelim Imadaev

0.38takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Max Griffin↑ +11.0pp
open 35.6%close 46.6%
Zelim Imadaev↓ −11.0pp
open 64.4%close 53.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Max Griffin opened at 35.6% and closed at 46.6% (+11.0pp), with Zelim Imadaev 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
Max Griffin16510535.6%46.6%+11.0pp
Zelim Imadaev-215-12764.4%53.4%−11.0pp
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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