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History · 2021 · UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor · Arman Tsarukyan vs Matt Frevola
From the tape · 23 Jan 2021

Arman Tsarukyan vs Matt Frevola

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

Arman Tsarukyan beat Matt Frevola

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain 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 ArmanTsarukyan“Ahalkalakets”American Top Team · Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
VSOn the tape
MF
Blue corner MattFrevola“The SteamRolla”Gracie Tampa South · Huntington, New York
Lightweight3 rounds23 Jan 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 35 points more takedown defence than Frevola.
23-3
Record
11-6-1
−6 yr24
Age
30
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
+1″72″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+14
0/20% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
Gracie Tampa South
Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai
From
Huntington, 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
Arman Tsarukyan28 sig landed
HEAD71%20 of 43BODY18%5 of 6LEGS11%3 of 3
Matt Frevola12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 31BODY42%5 of 8LEGS17%2 of 2
28 of 52
Sig.
strikes
12 of 41
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 2
1:17
Control
0:02
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tsarukyan firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Arman Tsarukyan7 sig landed
HEAD57%4 of 11BODY43%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Matt Frevola1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 3BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
1 of 3
4 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:36
Control
0:00
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tsarukyan firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Arman Tsarukyan15 sig landed
HEAD53%8 of 28BODY27%4 of 4LEGS20%3 of 3
Matt Frevola3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 12BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
15 of 35
Sig.
strikes
3 of 13
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:31
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tsarukyan firstEric Colón10–8Sal D'Amato10–9Clemens 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 · Lukasz Bosacki
Arman TsarukyanMatt Frevola
Official totals — Arman Tsarukyan first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

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, Arman Tsarukyan first · unofficial

Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM ABrasil.com.br30–27
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Tsarukyan · 64%29-28 Tsarukyan · 14%30-26 Tsarukyan · 11%29-27 Tsarukyan · 3%30-21 Frevola · 2%

63 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.

Arman Tsarukyan

3.26takedowns / 15 min
3.26 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.34 / 15m
8.81 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.71 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
41%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Matt Frevola

2.34takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Arman Tsarukyan→ no move
open 83.3%close 82.9%
Matt Frevola→ no move
open 16.7%close 17.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Arman Tsarukyan opened at 83.3% and closed at 82.9% once the vig is taken out — a 0.4pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Arman Tsarukyan-650-65383.3%82.9%−0.4pp
Matt Frevola47546016.7%17.1%+0.4pp
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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