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Events · UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards · Jose Aldo vs Merab Dvalishvili
From the tape · 20 Aug 2022

Jose Aldo vs Merab Dvalishvili

UFC 278: Usman vs. Edwards · Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Result

Merab Dvalishvili beat Jose Aldo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 JoseAldoNova Uniao · Manaus, Amazonas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
Bantamweight3 rounds20 Aug 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 7-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 13 UFC wins.
  • Averages 5.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Aldo.
32-10
Record
21-5
35
Age
−4 yr31
+1″5' 7"
Height
5' 6"
+2″70″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+1019
UFC bouts
9
+16%4/1331% of wins
Finishes
1/714% of wins
Nova Uniao
Gym
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Manaus, Amazonas
From
Tbilisi
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
Jose Aldo15 sig landed
HEAD7%1 of 8BODY73%11 of 13LEGS20%3 of 4
Merab Dvalishvili16 sig landed
HEAD12%2 of 31BODY19%3 of 4LEGS69%11 of 14
15 of 25
Sig.
strikes
16 of 49
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:00
Control
0:34
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Jose Aldo11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 15BODY36%4 of 5LEGS18%2 of 2
Merab Dvalishvili11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 22BODY18%2 of 3LEGS36%4 of 4
11 of 22
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:00
Control
2:54
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jose Aldo12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 12BODY50%6 of 7LEGS8%1 of 1
Merab Dvalishvili30 sig landed
HEAD43%13 of 49BODY17%5 of 7LEGS40%12 of 13
12 of 20
Sig.
strikes
30 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 7
0:00
Control
1:38
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Aldo firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Jose AldoMerab Dvalishvili
Official totals — Jose Aldo first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 21 scored, Jose Aldo first · unofficial

Noah Gagnon Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Sheehan SevereMMA.com28–29
Scott Fontana New York Post28–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com28–29
Marcel Dorff Eurosport Nederland28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com28–29
John Pollock POST Wrestling28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com28–29
Stephie Haynes BloodyElbow.com28–29
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv28–29
E. Casey Leydon29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dvalishvili · 39%29-28 Aldo · 31%30-27 Dvalishvili · 25%30-27 Aldo · 1%

337 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.

Jose Aldo

0.47takedowns / 15 min
0.47 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.97 / 15m
0.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
17.06 / 15m
51%
ACCURACY
35%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Jose Aldo↓ −17.2pp
open 60.7%close 43.4%
Merab Dvalishvili↑ +17.2pp
open 39.3%close 56.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jose Aldo opened at 60.7% and closed at 43.4% (−17.2pp), with Merab Dvalishvili 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
Jose Aldo-17012060.7%43.4%−17.2pp
Merab Dvalishvili145-14539.3%56.6%+17.2pp
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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