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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt · Rafael Alves vs Damir Ismagulov
From the tape · 22 May 2021

Rafael Alves vs Damir Ismagulov

UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbrandt · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Damir Ismagulov beat Rafael Alves

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

RA
Red corner RafaelAlves“The Turn”
VSOn the tape
DI
Blue corner DamirIsmagulov“Qazaq”Boets MMA · Orenburg
Lightweight3 rounds22 May 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 26 points more takedown defence than Alves.
20-12
Record
24-3
30
Age
30
5' 8"
Height
+2″5' 10"
68″
Reach
+6″74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
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⚡ 1 KD Alves1 sub attempt
Rafael Alves2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 of 1
Damir Ismagulov17 sig landed
HEAD24%4 of 9BODY41%7 of 8LEGS35%6 of 6
2 of 7
Sig.
strikes
17 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
4:46
1
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 17
Judges · this round · Alves firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Alves12 sig landed
HEAD58%7 of 21BODY17%2 of 2LEGS25%3 of 3
Damir Ismagulov24 sig landed
HEAD58%14 of 49BODY25%6 of 12LEGS17%4 of 5
12 of 26
Sig.
strikes
24 of 66
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
1:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Alves firstMichael Bell9–10Dave Hagen9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Rafael Alves16 sig landed
HEAD69%11 of 23BODY25%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 2
Damir Ismagulov15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 33BODY20%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
16 of 30
Sig.
strikes
15 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:14
Control
1:44
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Alves firstMichael Bell10–9Dave Hagen10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Rafael AlvesDamir Ismagulov
Official totals — Rafael Alves first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Dave Hagen2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29

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 — 11 scored, Rafael Alves first · unofficial

Matthew Wells TheBodyLockMMA.com28–29
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ismagulov · 63%30-27 Ismagulov · 12%29-28 Alves · 10%29-27 Ismagulov · 7%30-26 Ismagulov · 5%

41 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.

Rafael Alves

0.29takedowns / 15 min
0.29 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.00 / 15m
1.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.57 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
28%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Damir Ismagulov

1.00takedowns / 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.

Rafael Alves↓ −1.7pp
open 20.2%close 18.5%
Damir Ismagulov↑ +1.7pp
open 79.8%close 81.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Alves opened at 20.2% and closed at 18.5% (−1.7pp), with Damir Ismagulov 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
Rafael Alves37542020.2%18.5%−1.7pp
Damir Ismagulov-500-55779.8%81.5%+1.7pp
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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