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History · 2021 · UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor · Amir Albazi vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov
From the tape · 23 Jan 2021

Amir Albazi vs Zhalgas Zhumagulov

UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Amir Albazi beat Zhalgas Zhumagulov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain 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.

Red corner AmirAlbazi“The Prince”Xtreme Couture · Baghdad
VSOn the tape
ZZ
Blue corner ZhalgasZhumagulovAmerican Top Team · Aktobe
Flyweight3 rounds23 Jan 2021
17-3
Record
14-9
−5 yr27
Age
32
+1″5' 5"
Height
5' 4"
+2″68″
Reach
66″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
1
UFC bouts
1
Xtreme Couture
Gym
American Top Team
Baghdad
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
Amir Albazi14 sig landed
HEAD43%6 of 45BODY29%4 of 6LEGS29%4 of 7
Zhalgas Zhumagulov23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 24BODY52%12 of 13LEGS9%2 of 2
14 of 58
Sig.
strikes
23 of 39
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:30
Control
0:27
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Albazi firstMichael Bell9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Amir Albazi31 sig landed
HEAD61%19 of 51BODY16%5 of 10LEGS23%7 of 8
Zhalgas Zhumagulov25 sig landed
HEAD36%9 of 34BODY52%13 of 18LEGS12%3 of 4
31 of 69
Sig.
strikes
25 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:10
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Albazi firstMichael Bell10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Amir Albazi23 sig landed
HEAD65%15 of 32BODY26%6 of 8LEGS9%2 of 2
Zhalgas Zhumagulov11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 26BODY55%6 of 10LEGS9%1 of 1
23 of 42
Sig.
strikes
11 of 37
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:00
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Albazi firstMichael Bell10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Amir AlbaziZhalgas Zhumagulov
Official totals — Amir Albazi first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 23 scored, Amir Albazi first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press30–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Ant Walker Sherdog.com30–27
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Phil Murphy ESPN29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–28
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Adam Martin BJPenn.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Albazi · 55%30-27 Albazi · 37%29-28 Zhumagulov · 5%30-28 Albazi · 2%

62 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.

Amir Albazi

1.18takedowns / 15 min
1.18 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.30 / 15m
4.72 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.84 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
19%
0.40 / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Amir Albazi↑ +1.9pp
open 48.9%close 50.9%
Zhalgas Zhumagulov↓ −1.9pp
open 51.1%close 49.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Amir Albazi opened at 48.9% and closed at 50.9% (+1.9pp), 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
Amir Albazi-105-11548.9%50.9%+1.9pp
Zhalgas Zhumagulov-115-10751.1%49.1%−1.9pp
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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