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Events · UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar · David Zawada vs Ramazan Emeev
From the tape · 16 Jan 2021

David Zawada vs Ramazan Emeev

UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. Kattar · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Ramazan Emeev beat David Zawada

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

DZ
Red corner DavidZawada“Sagat”UFD Gym · Dusseldorf
VSOn the tape
RE
Blue corner RamazanEmeev“Gorets”American Top Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds16 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 1.3 more significant strikes a minute than Emeev.
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Zawada.
17-7
Record
20-6
−3 yr30
Age
33
+2″6' 0"
Height
5' 10"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
3
UFC bouts
+25
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
0/40% of wins
UFD Gym
Gym
American Top Team
Dusseldorf
From
Makhachkala, 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
David Zawada17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 30BODY24%4 of 7LEGS35%6 of 6
Ramazan Emeev21 sig landed
HEAD57%12 of 31BODY33%7 of 8LEGS10%2 of 2
17 of 43
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:20
Control
1:33
Distance 10Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 8Ground 2
Judges · this round · Zawada firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10
Round 25:00 of action
David Zawada17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 39BODY12%2 of 3LEGS35%6 of 7
Ramazan Emeev18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 32BODY28%5 of 6LEGS6%1 of 1
17 of 49
Sig.
strikes
18 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:03
Control
1:30
Distance 12Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Zawada firstMichael Bell10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
David Zawada10 sig landed
HEAD80%8 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS20%2 of 3
Ramazan Emeev14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 18BODY7%1 of 1LEGS7%1 of 2
10 of 22
Sig.
strikes
14 of 21
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
1:43
Control
1:25
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Zawada firstMichael Bell9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
David ZawadaRamazan Emeev
Official totals — David Zawada first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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 — 18 scored, David Zawada first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Adam Martin BJPenn.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM ABrasil.com.br28–29
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zawada · 40%29-28 Emeev · 39%30-27 Emeev · 19%30-28 Emeev · 3%

70 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.

David Zawada

0.97takedowns / 15 min
0.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.37 / 15m
2.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.17 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
29%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Ramazan Emeev

2.37takedowns / 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.

David Zawada↓ −5.5pp
open 34.5%close 29.0%
Ramazan Emeev↑ +5.5pp
open 65.5%close 71.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

David Zawada opened at 34.5% and closed at 29.0% (−5.5pp), with Ramazan Emeev 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
David Zawada18022734.5%29.0%−5.5pp
Ramazan Emeev-210-29765.5%71.0%+5.5pp
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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