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Events · UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Strickland · Ryan Benoit vs Zarrukh Adashev
From the tape · 31 Jul 2021

Ryan Benoit vs Zarrukh Adashev

UFC Fight Night: Hall vs. Strickland · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Zarrukh Adashev beat Ryan Benoit

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

RB
Red corner RyanBenoit“Baby Face”Janjira Muay Thai · Dallas, Texas
VSOn the tape
ZA
Blue corner ZarrukhAdashev“The Lion”Lions Martial Arts Gym · Brooklyn, New York
Flyweight3 rounds31 Jul 2021
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Carries 28 points more takedown defence than Benoit.
10-8
Record
4-4
31
Age
−2 yr29
5' 5"
Height
5' 5"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+68
UFC bouts
2
Janjira Muay Thai
Gym
Lions Martial Arts Gym
Dallas, Texas
From
Brooklyn, 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⚡ 1 KD Benoit1 sub attempt
Ryan Benoit14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 33BODY0%0 of 2LEGS7%1 of 1
Zarrukh Adashev26 sig landed
HEAD42%11 of 29BODY23%6 of 8LEGS35%9 of 10
14 of 36
Sig.
strikes
26 of 47
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:38
Control
0:09
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benoit firstEric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Ryan Benoit9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 34BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 2
Zarrukh Adashev25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 30BODY16%4 of 7LEGS24%6 of 7
9 of 37
Sig.
strikes
25 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:01
Control
0:36
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Benoit firstEric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ryan Benoit14 sig landed
HEAD93%13 of 51BODY7%1 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Zarrukh Adashev27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 49BODY7%2 of 2LEGS4%1 of 1
14 of 56
Sig.
strikes
27 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Benoit firstEric Colón9–10Ron McCarthy10–9Tony Weeks9–10

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
Ryan BenoitZarrukh Adashev
Official totals — Ryan Benoit first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide27–30
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 12 scored, Ryan Benoit first · unofficial

MM AMania.com27–30
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey CombatPress.com28–29
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Adashev · 42%30-27 Adashev · 28%29-28 Benoit · 28%30-28 Adashev · 3%

36 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.

Ryan Benoit

0.28takedowns / 15 min
0.28 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
1.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
22%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.50 / 15m

Zarrukh Adashev

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Ryan Benoit↓ −1.1pp
open 56.2%close 55.1%
Zarrukh Adashev↑ +1.1pp
open 43.8%close 44.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Ryan Benoit opened at 56.2% and closed at 55.1% (−1.1pp), with Zarrukh Adashev 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
Ryan Benoit-140-13956.2%55.1%−1.1pp
Zarrukh Adashev12011143.8%44.9%+1.1pp
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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