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Events · UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal · Raulian Paiva vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov
From the tape · 11 Jul 2020

Raulian Paiva vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov

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

Raulian Paiva beat Zhalgas Zhumagulov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Leon Roberts

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.

RP
Red corner RaulianPaivaSantana, Amapa
VSOn the tape
ZZ
Blue corner ZhalgasZhumagulovAmerican Top Team · Aktobe
Flyweight3 rounds11 Jul 2020
21-5
Record
14-9
−7 yr24
Age
31
+4″5' 8"
Height
5' 4"
+3″69″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
Santana, Amapa
From
Aktobe
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
Raulian Paiva21 sig landed
HEAD29%6 of 30BODY38%8 of 9LEGS33%7 of 8
Zhalgas Zhumagulov19 sig landed
HEAD26%5 of 25BODY32%6 of 6LEGS42%8 of 10
21 of 47
Sig.
strikes
19 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:09
Control
0:12
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Paiva firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Raulian Paiva16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 23BODY44%7 of 11LEGS25%4 of 6
Zhalgas Zhumagulov27 sig landed
HEAD26%7 of 20BODY33%9 of 13LEGS41%11 of 11
16 of 40
Sig.
strikes
27 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:25
Control
0:08
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Paiva firstLukasz Bosacki9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Raulian Paiva15 sig landed
HEAD20%3 of 18BODY47%7 of 11LEGS33%5 of 5
Zhalgas Zhumagulov20 sig landed
HEAD35%7 of 16BODY10%2 of 6LEGS55%11 of 12
15 of 34
Sig.
strikes
20 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 5
0:09
Control
0:09
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Paiva firstLukasz Bosacki10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo10–9

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 · Leon Roberts
Raulian PaivaZhalgas Zhumagulov
Official totals — Raulian Paiva first
JudgeTotal
Lukasz Bosacki2.6 avg spread · 69% wide29–28
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% 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 — 20 scored, Raulian Paiva first · unofficial

Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zhumagulov · 69%29-28 Paiva · 16%30-27 Zhumagulov · 6%29-27 Zhumagulov · 3%30-27 Paiva · 2%

186 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.

Raulian Paiva

0.65takedowns / 15 min
0.65 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.30 / 15m
2.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.84 / 15m
23%
ACCURACY
19%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Zhalgas Zhumagulov

1.30takedowns / 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.

Raulian Paiva↑ +8.1pp
open 51.1%close 59.2%
Zhalgas Zhumagulov↓ −8.1pp
open 48.9%close 40.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Raulian Paiva opened at 51.1% and closed at 59.2% (+8.1pp), with Zhalgas Zhumagulov 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
Raulian Paiva-115-16151.1%59.2%+8.1pp
Zhalgas Zhumagulov-10513548.9%40.8%−8.1pp
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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