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Events · UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Alexander Volkanovski vs Brian Ortega
From the tape · 25 Sep 2021

Alexander Volkanovski vs Brian Ortega

UFC 266: Volkanovski vs. Ortega · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alexander Volkanovski beat Brian Ortega

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
Featherweight Title

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 AlexanderVolkanovski“The Great”Windang, New South Wales
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BrianOrtega“T-City”Torrance, California
Featherweight Title5 rounds25 Sep 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
28-4
Record
16-5
32
Age
−2 yr30
5' 6"
Height
+2″5' 8"
+2″71″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
9
UFC bouts
9
3/933% of wins
Finishes
+52%6/786% of wins
Windang, New South Wales
From
Torrance, California
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Round by round

Every round the fight went, shaded by where the significant strikes actually landed — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

No round-by-round tape on file

UFCStats has no per-round record for this bout, so there is no timeline to draw. The result and the finish above are unaffected — this is a hole in the round-by-round tape, and we will not fill it in from the fight totals.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

No scorecard record on file

We could not join this bout to a scoring record, so nothing is shown here. That is a gap in the source data, not a card we are withholding.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Alexander Volkanovski

1.63takedowns / 15 min
1.63 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.93 / 15m
4.79 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.72 / 15m
34%
ACCURACY
25%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Brian Ortega

0.93takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Alexander Volkanovski→ no move
open 62.8%close 62.7%
Brian Ortega→ no move
open 37.2%close 37.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Alexander Volkanovski opened at 62.8% and closed at 62.7% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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
Alexander Volkanovski-185-18962.8%62.7%−0.1pp
Brian Ortega16015737.2%37.3%+0.1pp
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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