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Events · UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Muslim Salikhov
From the tape · 11 Jul 2020

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos vs Muslim Salikhov

UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Muslim Salikhov beat Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

Red corner Elizeu Zaleski dosSantos“Capoeira”CM System · Francisco Beltrao, Parana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MuslimSalikhov“King of Kung Fu”Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School · Buynaksk, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds11 Jul 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Salikhov.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
25-10-1
Record
22-6
−3 yr33
Age
36
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+610
UFC bouts
4
4/850% of wins
Finishes
+17%2/367% of wins
CM System
Gym
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School
Francisco Beltrao, Parana
From
Buynaksk, 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
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos20 sig landed
HEAD55%11 of 36BODY20%4 of 9LEGS25%5 of 5
Muslim Salikhov14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 14BODY21%3 of 4LEGS36%5 of 5
20 of 50
Sig.
strikes
14 of 23
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:10
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstLukasz Bosacki9–10David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 28BODY56%5 of 9LEGS11%1 of 4
Muslim Salikhov13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 20BODY15%2 of 4LEGS23%3 of 3
9 of 41
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:43
Control
0:02
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstLukasz Bosacki9–10David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 34BODY12%2 of 7LEGS35%6 of 6
Muslim Salikhov13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 30BODY23%3 of 6LEGS8%1 of 2
17 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Santos firstLukasz Bosacki9–10David Lethaby9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Herb Dean
Elizeu Zaleski dos SantosMuslim Salikhov
Official totals — Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos first
JudgeTotal
Lukasz Bosacki2.6 avg spread · 69% wide27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29

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 — 16 scored, Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos first · unofficial

Scott Fontana Couchside Judges28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Santos Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Santos Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28
Santos Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com29–28
Santos MMAJunkie.com29–28
Santos Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Santos Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Santos Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Santos MMAMania.com29–28
Santos MMABrasil.com.br30–27
Santos Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Santos Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Santos Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Santos Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zaleski dos Santos · 56%30-27 Zaleski dos Santos · 23%29-28 Salikhov · 13%30-27 Salikhov · 2%

243 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.

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

0.79takedowns / 15 min
0.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.07 / 15m
3.95 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.34 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
32%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Muslim Salikhov

1.07takedowns / 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.

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos↑ +8.0pp
open 36.5%close 44.5%
Muslim Salikhov↓ −8.0pp
open 63.5%close 55.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos opened at 36.5% and closed at 44.5% (+8.0pp), with Muslim Salikhov 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
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos16511636.5%44.5%+8.0pp
Muslim Salikhov-190-13663.5%55.5%−8.0pp
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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