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History · 2020 · UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik · Omari Akhmedov vs Chris Weidman
From the tape · 8 Aug 2020

Omari Akhmedov vs Chris Weidman

UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Oleinik · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Chris Weidman beat Omari Akhmedov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Jason Herzog

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.

OA
Red corner OmariAkhmedov“Wolverine”American Top Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner ChrisWeidman“The All-American”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Baldwin, New York
Middleweight3 rounds8 Aug 2020
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 7 of 10 UFC wins.
21-6-1
Record
16-8
−4 yr32
Age
36
6' 0"
Height
+2″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+5″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
12
UFC bouts
+315
2/825% of wins
Finishes
+45%7/1070% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Baldwin, New York
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
Omari Akhmedov6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 23BODY17%1 of 1LEGS17%1 of 1
Chris Weidman5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 13BODY20%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 25
Sig.
strikes
5 of 15
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 7
0:00
Control
2:59
Distance 4Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Omari Akhmedov25 sig landed
HEAD80%20 of 55BODY20%5 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Weidman15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 26BODY20%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 62
Sig.
strikes
15 of 30
4 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 5
1:34
Control
0:37
Distance 16Clinch 5Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Omari Akhmedov2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 3BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Chris Weidman9 sig landed
HEAD100%9 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
2 of 4
Sig.
strikes
9 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 4
0:00
Control
4:41
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 8
Judges · this round · Akhmedov firstMichael Bell8–10Eric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy8–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Omari AkhmedovChris Weidman
Official totals — Omari Akhmedov first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% 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 — 19 scored, Omari Akhmedov first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport27–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–29
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–29
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Greg Rosenstein The Athletic28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Matthew Wells FanSided.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Weidman · 47%29-27 Weidman · 41%29-28 Akhmedov · 7%

91 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.

Omari Akhmedov

2.58takedowns / 15 min
2.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.27 / 15m
5.73 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.79 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
42%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Chris Weidman

3.27takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Omari Akhmedov↓ −16.1pp
open 58.0%close 41.9%
Chris Weidman↑ +16.1pp
open 42.0%close 58.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Omari Akhmedov opened at 58.0% and closed at 41.9% (−16.1pp), with Chris Weidman 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
Omari Akhmedov-15013058.0%41.9%−16.1pp
Chris Weidman130-15242.0%58.1%+16.1pp
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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