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History · 2021 · UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns · Belal Muhammad vs Dhiego Lima
From the tape · 13 Feb 2021

Belal Muhammad vs Dhiego Lima

UFC 258: Usman vs. Burns · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Belal Muhammad beat Dhiego Lima

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Herb Dean

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 BelalMuhammad“Remember the Name”Roufusport · Chicago, Illinois
VSOn the tape
DL
Blue corner DhiegoLimaAmerican Top Team Atlanta · Goiania, Goias
Welterweight3 rounds13 Feb 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
24-6
Record
17-9
32
Age
32
5' 11"
Height
+3″6' 2"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+211
UFC bouts
9
2/825% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
Roufusport
Gym
American Top Team Atlanta
Chicago, Illinois
From
Goiania, Goias
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
Belal Muhammad42 sig landed
HEAD74%31 of 78BODY26%11 of 15LEGS0%0 landed
Dhiego Lima19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 57BODY5%1 of 2LEGS42%8 of 10
42 of 93
Sig.
strikes
19 of 69
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:15
Control
0:00
Distance 41Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Belal Muhammad38 sig landed
HEAD89%34 of 71BODY11%4 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Dhiego Lima25 sig landed
HEAD28%7 of 58BODY20%5 of 5LEGS52%13 of 13
38 of 79
Sig.
strikes
25 of 76
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:35
Control
0:00
Distance 36Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Belal Muhammad49 sig landed
HEAD90%44 of 83BODY10%5 of 8LEGS0%0 of 1
Dhiego Lima25 sig landed
HEAD36%9 of 41BODY44%11 of 12LEGS20%5 of 5
49 of 92
Sig.
strikes
25 of 58
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:52
Control
0:00
Distance 41Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Muhammad firstDerek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Jerin Valel10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Belal MuhammadDhiego Lima
Official totals — Belal Muhammad first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Jerin Valel30–27

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 — 22 scored, Belal Muhammad first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–26
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–26
Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com30–26
Nick Baldwin theScore30–26
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com30–26
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com30–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling30–27
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com30–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl30–27
Shakiel Mahjouri Fightful.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Phil Murphy ESPN30–27
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Muhammad · 75%30-26 Muhammad · 18%29-27 Muhammad · 4%29-28 Muhammad · 4%

28 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.

Belal Muhammad

2.14takedowns / 15 min
2.14 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.26 / 15m
5.94 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.71 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
34%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Dhiego Lima

1.26takedowns / 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.

Belal Muhammad↑ +4.1pp
open 75.0%close 79.1%
Dhiego Lima↓ −4.1pp
open 25.0%close 20.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Belal Muhammad opened at 75.0% and closed at 79.1% (+4.1pp), with Dhiego Lima 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
Belal Muhammad-350-47375.0%79.1%+4.1pp
Dhiego Lima28535825.0%20.9%−4.1pp
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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