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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Aldo · Brad Riddell vs Rafael Fiziev
From the tape · 4 Dec 2021

Brad Riddell vs Rafael Fiziev

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

Rafael Fiziev beat Brad Riddell

Method
KO/TKO
Round
3 of 3
Clock
2:20
LightweightCo-MainReferee · 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.

BR
Red corner BradRiddell“Quake”City Kickboxing · Auckland
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RafaelFiziev“Ataman”Korday
Lightweight3 rounds4 Dec 2021
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Carries 27 points more takedown defence than Riddell.
10-4
Record
14-5
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
71″
Reach
71″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
4
UFC bouts
+15
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+25%1/425% of wins
Auckland
From
Korday
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Brad Riddell21 sig landed
HEAD43%9 of 28BODY33%7 of 8LEGS24%5 of 5
Rafael Fiziev19 sig landed
HEAD53%10 of 18BODY37%7 of 10LEGS11%2 of 7
21 of 41
Sig.
strikes
19 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Brad Riddell22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 30BODY36%8 of 13LEGS27%6 of 7
Rafael Fiziev30 sig landed
HEAD47%14 of 38BODY43%13 of 17LEGS10%3 of 4
22 of 50
Sig.
strikes
30 of 59
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:09
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 2Ground 0
Round 32:20 of actionEnded 2:20
Brad Riddell16 sig landed
HEAD38%6 of 14BODY31%5 of 5LEGS31%5 of 5
Rafael Fiziev17 sig landed
HEAD71%12 of 22BODY12%2 of 3LEGS18%3 of 4
16 of 24
Sig.
strikes
17 of 29
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Rafael Fiziev

Round
3
Clock
2:20
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Brad Riddell

1.77takedowns / 15 min
1.77 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.83 / 15m
4.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.26 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
66%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rafael Fiziev

0.83takedowns / 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.

Brad Riddell↓ −8.3pp
open 54.3%close 46.0%
Rafael Fiziev↑ +8.3pp
open 45.7%close 54.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Brad Riddell opened at 54.3% and closed at 46.0% (−8.3pp), with Rafael Fiziev 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
Brad Riddell-13010854.3%46.0%−8.3pp
Rafael Fiziev110-13045.7%54.0%+8.3pp
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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