This Saturday Hooker vs Parnasse · Accor Arena Paris France See this week's picks →
History · 2022 · UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Gilbert Burns vs Khamzat Chimaev
From the tape · 9 Apr 2022

Gilbert Burns vs Khamzat Chimaev

UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Khamzat Chimaev beat Gilbert Burns

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 GilbertBurns“Durinho”Kill Cliff FC · Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
VSOn the tape
Blue corner KhamzatChimaev“Borz”Allstars Training Center · Dubai
Welterweight3 rounds9 Apr 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 13 more than Chimaev.
  • Every one of Chimaev’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
22-10
Record
15-1
35
Age
−8 yr27
5' 10"
Height
+4″6' 2"
71″
Reach
+4″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1317
UFC bouts
4
7/1354% of wins
Finishes
+46%4/4100% of wins
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Allstars Training Center
Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro
From
Dubai
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 Chimaev
Gilbert Burns18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 34BODY28%5 of 5LEGS11%2 of 3
Khamzat Chimaev27 sig landed
HEAD56%15 of 40BODY26%7 of 9LEGS19%5 of 5
18 of 42
Sig.
strikes
27 of 54
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
1:44
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 14Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 10
Judges · this round · Burns firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Troy Wincapaw9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Gilbert Burns56 sig landed
HEAD80%45 of 76BODY12%7 of 9LEGS7%4 of 5
Khamzat Chimaev37 sig landed
HEAD78%29 of 64BODY11%4 of 7LEGS11%4 of 4
56 of 90
Sig.
strikes
37 of 75
0 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:02
Control
0:10
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 43Clinch 5Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 36Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Burns firstEric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9Troy Wincapaw10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Gilbert Burns45 sig landed
HEAD73%33 of 56BODY22%10 of 10LEGS4%2 of 2
Khamzat Chimaev44 sig landed
HEAD91%40 of 87BODY7%3 of 6LEGS2%1 of 1
45 of 68
Sig.
strikes
44 of 94
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:04
Control
0:29
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 42Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 38Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Burns firstEric Colón9–10Chris Lee9–10Troy Wincapaw9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Gilbert BurnsKhamzat Chimaev
Official totals — Gilbert Burns first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Troy Wincapaw2.3 avg spread · 55% wide28–29

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 — 18 scored, Gilbert Burns first · unofficial

Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Scott Fontana New York Post28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Nick Baldwin theScore28–29
Phil Murphy ESPN28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com27–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Chimaev · 60%29-28 Burns · 29%29-27 Chimaev · 2%

2,636 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.

Gilbert Burns

2.04takedowns / 15 min
2.04 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.32 / 15m
5.83 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
9.17 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
58%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Khamzat Chimaev

5.32takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Gilbert Burns↓ −31.1pp
open 50.0%close 18.9%
Khamzat Chimaev↑ +31.1pp
open 50.0%close 81.1%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Gilbert Burns opened at 50.0% and closed at 18.9% (−31.1pp), with Khamzat Chimaev 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
Gilbert Burns-11040750.0%18.9%−31.1pp
Khamzat Chimaev-110-55750.0%81.1%+31.1pp
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.
← Every fighter on the record