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History · 2019 · UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie · Raoni Barcelos vs Said Nurmagomedov
From the tape · 21 Dec 2019

Raoni Barcelos vs Said Nurmagomedov

UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie · Busan, South Korea
Result

Raoni Barcelos beat Said Nurmagomedov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Peter Hickmott

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 RaoniBarcelosLaerte Barcelos Team · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SaidNurmagomedovFight Club Akhmat · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Bantamweight3 rounds21 Dec 2019
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Every one of Barcelos’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
22-5
Record
18-5
32
Age
−5 yr27
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
67″
Reach
+3″70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/250% of wins
Laerte Barcelos Team
Gym
Fight Club Akhmat
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro
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
Raoni Barcelos9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 16BODY33%3 of 4LEGS44%4 of 6
Said Nurmagomedov16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 52BODY19%3 of 6LEGS44%7 of 8
9 of 26
Sig.
strikes
16 of 66
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barcelos firstBen Cartlidge9–10Evan Field9–10Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Raoni Barcelos20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 17BODY10%2 of 5LEGS55%11 of 13
Said Nurmagomedov23 sig landed
HEAD48%11 of 36BODY17%4 of 8LEGS35%8 of 9
20 of 35
Sig.
strikes
23 of 53
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:42
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Barcelos firstBen Cartlidge10–9Evan Field10–9Paul Sutherland10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Raoni Barcelos13 sig landed
HEAD54%7 of 28BODY23%3 of 7LEGS23%3 of 4
Said Nurmagomedov16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 43BODY19%3 of 4LEGS38%6 of 6
13 of 39
Sig.
strikes
16 of 53
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:55
Control
0:14
Distance 6Clinch 5Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barcelos firstBen Cartlidge10–9Evan Field10–9Paul Sutherland10–9

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 · Peter Hickmott
Raoni BarcelosSaid Nurmagomedov
Official totals — Raoni Barcelos first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide29–28
Paul Sutherland2.2 avg spread · 52% wide30–27

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 — 4 scored, Raoni Barcelos first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Barcelos · 47%30-27 Barcelos · 22%29-28 Nurmagomedov · 17%30-27 Nurmagomedov · 8%30-26 Barcelos · 2%

60 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.

Raoni Barcelos

2.51takedowns / 15 min
2.51 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.86 / 15m
8.10 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.73 / 15m
31%
ACCURACY
15%
0.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Said Nurmagomedov

0.86takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Raoni Barcelos↑ +7.8pp
open 40.6%close 48.4%
Said Nurmagomedov↓ −7.8pp
open 59.4%close 51.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Raoni Barcelos opened at 40.6% and closed at 48.4% (+7.8pp), with Said Nurmagomedov 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
Raoni Barcelos135-10340.6%48.4%+7.8pp
Said Nurmagomedov-165-11859.4%51.6%−7.8pp
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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