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History · 2019 · UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier · Mairbek Taisumov vs Diego Ferreira
From the tape · 7 Sep 2019

Mairbek Taisumov vs Diego Ferreira

UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Diego Ferreira beat Mairbek Taisumov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · 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.

MT
Red corner MairbekTaisumov“Beckan”Grozny, Chechnya
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DiegoFerreiraFortis MMA · Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
Lightweight3 rounds7 Sep 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
27-6
Record
20-7
−3 yr31
Age
34
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
73″
Reach
+1″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
8
UFC bouts
8
+5%5/771% of wins
Finishes
4/667% of wins
Grozny, Chechnya
From
Careiro da Varzea, Amazonas
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
Mairbek Taisumov19 sig landed
HEAD74%14 of 41BODY0%0 of 6LEGS26%5 of 6
Diego Ferreira12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 62BODY33%4 of 9LEGS8%1 of 2
19 of 53
Sig.
strikes
12 of 73
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taisumov firstHowie Booth10–9Mark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Mairbek Taisumov18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 42BODY22%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 2
Diego Ferreira33 sig landed
HEAD67%22 of 90BODY27%9 of 16LEGS6%2 of 2
18 of 49
Sig.
strikes
33 of 108
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:19
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 33Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taisumov firstHowie Booth9–10Mark Collett9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Mairbek Taisumov14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 56BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Diego Ferreira64 sig landed
HEAD75%48 of 119BODY19%12 of 21LEGS6%4 of 5
14 of 58
Sig.
strikes
64 of 145
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 62Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Taisumov firstHowie Booth9–10Mark Collett8–10David Lethaby8–10

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
Mairbek TaisumovDiego Ferreira
Official totals — Mairbek Taisumov first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide28–29
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide27–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–29

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 — 15 scored, Mairbek Taisumov first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Wesley Riddle MMASucka.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ferreira · 43%29-27 Ferreira · 36%30-26 Ferreira · 7%30-27 Ferreira · 4%29-26 Ferreira · 2%

44 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.

Mairbek Taisumov

1.34takedowns / 15 min
1.34 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.82 / 15m
2.13 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.73 / 15m
63%
ACCURACY
30%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Diego Ferreira

0.82takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mairbek Taisumov↓ −4.9pp
open 74.3%close 69.5%
Diego Ferreira↑ +4.9pp
open 25.7%close 30.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Mairbek Taisumov opened at 74.3% and closed at 69.5% (−4.9pp), with Diego Ferreira 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
Mairbek Taisumov-385-26174.3%69.5%−4.9pp
Diego Ferreira26521525.7%30.5%+4.9pp
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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