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History · 2022 · UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal · Tim Elliott vs Tagir Ulanbekov
From the tape · 5 Mar 2022

Tim Elliott vs Tagir Ulanbekov

UFC 272: Covington vs. Masvidal · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tim Elliott beat Tagir Ulanbekov

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

Red corner TimElliottNext Generation Mixed Martial Arts · Lee's Summit, Missouri
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TagirUlanbekovEagles MMA · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Flyweight3 rounds5 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • 16 UFC bouts deep — 14 more than Ulanbekov.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
22-14-1
Record
17-3
35
Age
−5 yr30
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
66″
Reach
+4″70″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
+1416
UFC bouts
2
1/617% of wins
Finishes
0/20% of wins
Next Generation Mixed Martial Arts
Gym
Eagles MMA
Lee's Summit, Missouri
From
Makhachkala, Dagestan
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 Elliott
Tim Elliott36 sig landed
HEAD44%16 of 52BODY17%6 of 14LEGS39%14 of 16
Tagir Ulanbekov38 sig landed
HEAD79%30 of 68BODY21%8 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
36 of 82
Sig.
strikes
38 of 78
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:31
Control
0:26
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 31Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 34Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Tim Elliott23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 35BODY22%5 of 7LEGS39%9 of 10
Tagir Ulanbekov21 sig landed
HEAD86%18 of 41BODY14%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
23 of 52
Sig.
strikes
21 of 45
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 7
0:21
Control
1:28
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9Ron McCarthy10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Tim Elliott20 sig landed
HEAD25%5 of 26BODY20%4 of 5LEGS55%11 of 14
Tagir Ulanbekov31 sig landed
HEAD71%22 of 53BODY13%4 of 5LEGS16%5 of 5
20 of 45
Sig.
strikes
31 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
3:01
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 10Ground 2
Judges · this round · Elliott firstDerek Cleary9–10Junichiro Kamijo9–10Ron McCarthy9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Tim ElliottTagir Ulanbekov
Official totals — Tim Elliott first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28

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 — 17 scored, Tim Elliott first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ulanbekov · 52%29-28 Elliott · 32%29-27 Ulanbekov · 4%30-27 Ulanbekov · 3%

272 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.

Tim Elliott

3.61takedowns / 15 min
3.61 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.73 / 15m
8.02 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.00 / 15m
45%
ACCURACY
39%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Tagir Ulanbekov

2.73takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Tim Elliott vs Tagir Ulanbekov.

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