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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik · Islam Makhachev vs Arman Tsarukyan
From the tape · 20 Apr 2019

Islam Makhachev vs Arman Tsarukyan

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik · Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Result

Islam Makhachev beat Arman Tsarukyan

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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 IslamMakhachevMakhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ArmanTsarukyan“Ahalkalakets”American Top Team · Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
Lightweight3 rounds20 Apr 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Lands 1.4 more significant strikes a minute than Makhachev.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
29-1
Record
23-3
27
Age
−5 yr22
+3″5' 10"
Height
5' 7"
70″
Reach
+2″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
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
Islam Makhachev6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 5BODY50%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Arman Tsarukyan4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 5BODY100%4 of 6LEGS0%0 of 1
6 of 9
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
1 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 7
1:45
Control
1:25
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makhachev firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Howard Hughes10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Islam Makhachev4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
Arman Tsarukyan4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 7BODY0%0 of 2LEGS25%1 of 2
4 of 7
Sig.
strikes
4 of 11
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:52
Control
0:21
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makhachev firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Howard Hughes10–9David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Islam Makhachev4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 2BODY50%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Arman Tsarukyan5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 13BODY60%3 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
4 of 4
Sig.
strikes
5 of 20
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 3
2:30
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Makhachev firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Howard Hughes10–9David Lethaby10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Islam MakhachevArman Tsarukyan
Official totals — Islam Makhachev first
JudgeTotal
Lukasz Bosacki2.6 avg spread · 69% wide30–27
Howard Hughes2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28

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 — 16 scored, Islam Makhachev first · unofficial

Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Mike Straus MMAJA30–27
Drake Riggs BJPenn.com30–27
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com30–27
Adam Martin Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
John Brannigan Sherdog.com30–27
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM ABrasil.com.br29–28
Keith Shillan FanSided.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Makhachev · 41%29-28 Makhachev · 32%29-28 Tsarukyan · 12%30-27 Tsarukyan · 4%

568 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.

Islam Makhachev

3.10takedowns / 15 min
3.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.26 / 15m
5.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.81 / 15m
56%
ACCURACY
37%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Arman Tsarukyan

3.26takedowns / 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.

Islam Makhachev↓ −3.4pp
open 77.8%close 74.4%
Arman Tsarukyan↑ +3.4pp
open 22.2%close 25.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Islam Makhachev opened at 77.8% and closed at 74.4% (−3.4pp), with Arman Tsarukyan 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
Islam Makhachev-475-33977.8%74.4%−3.4pp
Arman Tsarukyan32527722.2%25.6%+3.4pp
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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