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History · 2021 · UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Jared Gooden vs Abubakar Nurmagomedov
From the tape · 27 Mar 2021

Jared Gooden vs Abubakar Nurmagomedov

UFC 260: Miocic vs. Ngannou · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Abubakar Nurmagomedov beat Jared Gooden

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

Red corner JaredGooden“NiteTrain”X3 Sports · Atlanta, Georgia
VSOn the tape
AN
Blue corner AbubakarNurmagomedovFightspirit Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds27 Mar 2021
The story going in
  • Lands 1.6 more significant strikes a minute than Nurmagomedov.
  • Carries 20 points more striking defence than Gooden.
23-10
Record
17-4-1
−4 yr27
Age
31
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+5″77″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
1
X3 Sports
Gym
Fightspirit Team
Atlanta, Georgia
From
Makhachkala, Dagestan
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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
Jared Gooden14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 42BODY14%2 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Abubakar Nurmagomedov23 sig landed
HEAD52%12 of 31BODY30%7 of 7LEGS17%4 of 4
14 of 49
Sig.
strikes
23 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:07
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gooden firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jared Gooden17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 47BODY41%7 of 14LEGS6%1 of 1
Abubakar Nurmagomedov30 sig landed
HEAD93%28 of 61BODY3%1 of 1LEGS3%1 of 1
17 of 62
Sig.
strikes
30 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gooden firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jared Gooden12 sig landed
HEAD75%9 of 21BODY25%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Abubakar Nurmagomedov7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 13BODY14%1 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
4:07
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gooden firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary9–10Dave Hagen9–10

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
Jared GoodenAbubakar Nurmagomedov
Official totals — Jared Gooden first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide27–30

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, Jared Gooden first · unofficial

Drake Riggs TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com27–30
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–30
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com27–30
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press27–30
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–30
Scott Fontana Couchside Judges27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Nick Baldwin theScore27–30
MM ABrasil.com.br27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Nurmagomedov · 84%30-26 Nurmagomedov · 13%29-28 Nurmagomedov · 3%

31 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.

Jared Gooden

0.91takedowns / 15 min
0.91 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.25 / 15m
2.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.68 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
22%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Abubakar Nurmagomedov

1.25takedowns / 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.

Jared Gooden↓ −6.7pp
open 40.1%close 33.4%
Abubakar Nurmagomedov↑ +6.7pp
open 59.9%close 66.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jared Gooden opened at 40.1% and closed at 33.4% (−6.7pp), with Abubakar Nurmagomedov 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
Jared Gooden13518740.1%33.4%−6.7pp
Abubakar Nurmagomedov-175-22959.9%66.6%+6.7pp
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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