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History · 2022 · UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Askar Askarov vs Kai Kara-France
From the tape · 26 Mar 2022

Askar Askarov vs Kai Kara-France

UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Daukaus · Columbus, Ohio, USA
Result

Kai Kara-France beat Askar Askarov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chad Trukovich

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.

AA
Red corner AskarAskarov“Bullet”Fighting Eagle · Khasavyurt, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
KK
Blue corner KaiKara-France“Don't Blink”City Kickboxing · Auckland
Flyweight3 rounds26 Mar 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Kara-France.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
14-1-1
Record
25-12
29
Age
29
+2″5' 6"
Height
5' 4"
67″
Reach
+2″69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+48
0/30% of wins
Finishes
+33%2/633% of wins
Fighting Eagle
Gym
City Kickboxing
Khasavyurt, Dagestan
From
Auckland
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 action2 sub attempts
Askar Askarov3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 3BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 5BODY0%0 of 2LEGS75%3 of 3
3 of 4
Sig.
strikes
4 of 10
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:09
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Askarov firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Todd Schwarz10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Askar Askarov12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 25BODY0%0 of 2LEGS8%1 of 1
Kai Kara-France24 sig landed
HEAD67%16 of 55BODY21%5 of 7LEGS12%3 of 3
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
24 of 65
1 of 7
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:58
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 2Ground 1
Judges · this round · Askarov firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Todd Schwarz9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Askar Askarov12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 27BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Kai Kara-France23 sig landed
HEAD39%9 of 36BODY22%5 of 9LEGS39%9 of 10
12 of 28
Sig.
strikes
23 of 55
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:07
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Askarov firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Todd Schwarz9–10

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 · Chad Trukovich
Askar AskarovKai Kara-France
Official totals — Askar Askarov first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Todd Schwarz28–29

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 — 19 scored, Askar Askarov first · unofficial

Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Mike Sloan Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Joe McDonagh Cageside Press29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Kara-France · 58%29-28 Askarov · 32%29-27 Askarov · 3%

470 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.

Askar Askarov

2.60takedowns / 15 min
2.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.56 / 15m
10.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.87 / 15m
24%
ACCURACY
30%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Kai Kara-France

0.56takedowns / 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.

Askar Askarov↑ +12.9pp
open 64.3%close 77.2%
Kai Kara-France↓ −12.9pp
open 35.7%close 22.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Askar Askarov opened at 64.3% and closed at 77.2% (+12.9pp), with Kai Kara-France 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
Askar Askarov-200-42664.3%77.2%+12.9pp
Kai Kara-France17031835.7%22.8%−12.9pp
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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