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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Timur Valiev vs Martin Day
From the tape · 6 Feb 2021

Timur Valiev vs Martin Day

UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Volkov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Timur Valiev beat Martin Day

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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.

TV
Red corner TimurValiev“Lucky”Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
MD
Blue corner MartinDay“The Spartan”Hawaii Elite MMA · Kailua, Hawaii
Featherweight3 rounds6 Feb 2021
The story going in
  • Is 53 points more accurate striking than Day.
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
18-3
Record
8-6
5' 6"
Height
+4″5' 10"
67″
Reach
+6″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Kailua, Hawaii
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
Timur Valiev12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 7BODY8%1 of 2LEGS67%8 of 9
Martin Day3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 12BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 of 2
12 of 18
Sig.
strikes
3 of 16
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:58
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Valiev firstJerin Valel10–9Tony Weeks10–9Rick Winter10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Timur Valiev21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 20BODY0%0 of 2LEGS14%3 of 3
Martin Day4 sig landed
HEAD75%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS25%1 of 1
21 of 25
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:05
Control
0:15
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 16
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Valiev firstJerin Valel10–8Tony Weeks10–8Rick Winter10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Timur Valiev22 sig landed
HEAD73%16 of 26BODY14%3 of 3LEGS14%3 of 4
Martin Day1 sig landed
HEAD100%1 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
22 of 33
Sig.
strikes
1 of 6
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:16
Control
0:00
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 15
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Valiev firstJerin Valel10–8Tony Weeks10–9Rick Winter10–8

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 · Mark Smith
Timur ValievMartin Day
Official totals — Timur Valiev first
JudgeTotal
Jerin Valel30–25
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–26
Rick Winter2.1 avg spread · 51% wide30–25

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 — 16 scored, Timur Valiev first · unofficial

Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com30–26
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–26
MM AJunkie.com30–26
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Valiev · 40%30-26 Valiev · 32%30-25 Valiev · 20%30-24 Day · 4%30-24 Valiev · 4%

25 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

Timur Valiev

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.73takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.73 landed per 15 minutes — −0.35 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS54
1.73 / 15m−0.35 vs field
ATTEMPTS49
4.32 / 15m−1.21 vs field
ACCURACY56
40%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT27
0.30 / 15m−0.77 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Timur Valiev↑ +0.7pp
open 76.9%close 77.6%
Martin Day↓ −0.7pp
open 23.1%close 22.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Timur Valiev opened at 76.9% and closed at 77.6% (+0.7pp), with Martin Day 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
Timur Valiev-410-43276.9%77.6%+0.7pp
Martin Day31532723.1%22.4%−0.7pp
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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