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History · 2022 · UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Nicolae Negumereanu vs Ihor Potieria
From the tape · 30 Jul 2022

Nicolae Negumereanu vs Ihor Potieria

UFC 277: Pena vs. Nunes 2 · Dallas, Texas, USA
Result

Nicolae Negumereanu beat Ihor Potieria

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:33
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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.

NN
Red corner NicolaeNegumereanuKorona Sports Centre · Brasov
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IhorPotieria“Duelist”Standard Pro · Kyiv
Light Heavyweight3 rounds30 Jul 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 11 points more striking defence than Negumereanu.
13-2
Record
20-8
27
Age
−1 yr26
6' 0"
Height
+3″6' 3"
+3″78″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Korona Sports Centre
Gym
Standard Pro
Brasov
From
Kyiv
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nicolae Negumereanu8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 15BODY12%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Ihor Potieria7 sig landed
HEAD29%2 of 10BODY14%1 of 1LEGS57%4 of 4
8 of 18
Sig.
strikes
7 of 15
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:36
Control
0:00
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 1
Round 23:33 of actionEnded 3:33
Nicolae Negumereanu43 sig landed
HEAD86%37 of 69BODY14%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Ihor Potieria31 sig landed
HEAD77%24 of 48BODY6%2 of 2LEGS16%5 of 5
43 of 77
Sig.
strikes
31 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:25
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 24Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 6Ground 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

Nicolae Negumereanu

Round
2
Clock
3:33
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: Kerry Hatley.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Nicolae Negumereanu

1.02takedowns / 15 min
1.02 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.73 / 15m
3.64 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.06 / 15m
28%
ACCURACY
18%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Ihor Potieria

0.73takedowns / 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 (5.32 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.

Nicolae Negumereanu↑ +12.8pp
open 35.7%close 48.5%
Ihor Potieria↓ −12.8pp
open 64.3%close 51.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nicolae Negumereanu opened at 35.7% and closed at 48.5% (+12.8pp), with Ihor Potieria 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
Nicolae Negumereanu170-10135.7%48.5%+12.8pp
Ihor Potieria-200-11464.3%51.5%−12.8pp
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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