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History · 2020 · UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje · Alexander Volkov vs Walt Harris
From the tape · 24 Oct 2020

Alexander Volkov vs Walt Harris

UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Alexander Volkov beat Walt Harris

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
1:15
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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 AlexanderVolkov“Drago”Strela Team · Moscow
VSOn the tape
WH
Blue corner WaltHarris“The Big Ticket”Homewood, Alabama
Heavyweight3 rounds24 Oct 2020
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Harris’s 6 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Is 18 points more accurate striking than Harris.
  • 14 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Volkov.
40-11
Record
13-10
−5 yr32
Age
37
+2″6' 7"
Height
6' 5"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
+714
2/540% of wins
Finishes
+60%6/6100% of wins
Moscow
From
Homewood, Alabama
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Alexander Volkov39 sig landed
HEAD69%27 of 51BODY26%10 of 10LEGS5%2 of 3
Walt Harris15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 41BODY33%5 of 9LEGS27%4 of 4
39 of 64
Sig.
strikes
15 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 21:15 of actionEnded 1:15
Alexander Volkov6 sig landed
HEAD83%5 of 8BODY17%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Walt Harris1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
6 of 9
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:03
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Alexander Volkov

Round
2
Clock
1:15
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Lukasz Bosacki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Alexander Volkov

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.29 / 15m
0.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.04 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
28%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Walt Harris

0.29takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Alexander Volkov↑ +2.9pp
open 59.6%close 62.6%
Walt Harris↓ −2.9pp
open 40.4%close 37.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Volkov opened at 59.6% and closed at 62.6% (+2.9pp), with Walt Harris 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
Alexander Volkov-160-18459.6%62.6%+2.9pp
Walt Harris14015840.4%37.4%−2.9pp
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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