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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker · Brad Riddell vs Magomed Mustafaev
From the tape · 22 Feb 2020

Brad Riddell vs Magomed Mustafaev

UFC Fight Night: Felder vs. Hooker · Auckland, New Zealand
Result

Brad Riddell beat Magomed Mustafaev

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · John Sharp

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.

BR
Red corner BradRiddell“Quake”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
MM
Blue corner MagomedMustafaev“The Sniper”Sochi, Krasnodar Krai
Lightweight3 rounds22 Feb 2020
The story going in
  • Carries 40 points more takedown defence than Mustafaev.
  • Every one of Mustafaev’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Riddell.
10-4
Record
14-4
−3 yr28
Age
31
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+34
0/10% of wins
Finishes
3/3100% of wins
Auckland
From
Sochi, Krasnodar 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⚡ 1 KD Riddell
Brad Riddell3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
Magomed Mustafaev12 sig landed
HEAD17%2 of 4BODY25%3 of 6LEGS58%7 of 7
3 of 5
Sig.
strikes
12 of 17
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 4
0:36
Control
3:05
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 7
Judges · this round · Riddell firstHowie Booth9–10Barry Foley9–10Luke Hill9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Riddell17 sig landed
HEAD47%8 of 17BODY29%5 of 8LEGS24%4 of 4
Magomed Mustafaev12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 14BODY25%3 of 4LEGS25%3 of 4
17 of 29
Sig.
strikes
12 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:02
Control
2:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Riddell firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley9–10Luke Hill10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Brad Riddell18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 28BODY39%7 of 9LEGS6%1 of 1
Magomed Mustafaev4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 5BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
18 of 38
Sig.
strikes
4 of 7
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:24
Control
1:55
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Riddell firstHowie Booth10–9Barry Foley10–9Luke Hill10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · John Sharp
Brad RiddellMagomed Mustafaev
Official totals — Brad Riddell first
JudgeTotal
Howie Booth1.8 avg spread · 33% wide29–28
Barry Foley1.6 avg spread · 25% wide28–29
Luke Hill29–28

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 — 11 scored, Brad Riddell first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Matthew Wells FanSided.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Eddie Mercado BloodyElbow.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Riddell · 38%29-28 Mustafaev · 32%30-27 Riddell · 24%

176 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.

Brad Riddell

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.31 / 15m
4.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.62 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Magomed Mustafaev

3.31takedowns / 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.

Brad Riddell↑ +21.6pp
open 22.5%close 44.1%
Magomed Mustafaev↓ −21.6pp
open 77.5%close 55.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Riddell opened at 22.5% and closed at 44.1% (+21.6pp), with Magomed Mustafaev 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
Brad Riddell32511722.5%44.1%+21.6pp
Magomed Mustafaev-425-14077.5%55.9%−21.6pp
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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