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Events · UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa · Nassourdine Imavov vs Joaquin Buckley
From the tape · 3 Sep 2022

Nassourdine Imavov vs Joaquin Buckley

UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Result

Nassourdine Imavov beat Joaquin Buckley

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 NassourdineImavov“The Sniper”Venum Training Camp · Paris
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoaquinBuckley“New Mansa”Murcielago MMA · St. Louis, Missouri
Middleweight3 rounds3 Sep 2022
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
17-4
Record
21-8
−2 yr26
Age
28
+5″6' 3"
Height
5' 10"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+37
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+13%4/580% of wins
Venum Training Camp
Gym
Murcielago MMA
Paris
From
St. Louis, Missouri
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
Nassourdine Imavov15 sig landed
HEAD73%11 of 29BODY27%4 of 5LEGS0%0 of 1
Joaquin Buckley10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 35BODY10%1 of 4LEGS60%6 of 9
15 of 35
Sig.
strikes
10 of 48
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:43
Control
0:22
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Imavov firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9Mark Collett10–9
Round 25:00 of action2 sub attempts
Nassourdine Imavov14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 24BODY7%1 of 3LEGS7%1 of 3
Joaquin Buckley10 sig landed
HEAD40%4 of 37BODY30%3 of 5LEGS30%3 of 3
14 of 30
Sig.
strikes
10 of 45
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:10
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Imavov firstBen Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9Mark Collett10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nassourdine Imavov22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 37BODY18%4 of 5LEGS5%1 of 2
Joaquin Buckley26 sig landed
HEAD77%20 of 73BODY15%4 of 4LEGS8%2 of 4
22 of 44
Sig.
strikes
26 of 81
1 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:03
Control
0:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Imavov firstBen Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary10–9Mark Collett9–10

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 · Marc Goddard
Nassourdine ImavovJoaquin Buckley
Official totals — Nassourdine Imavov first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% 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, Nassourdine Imavov first · unofficial

Ben Davis29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Alex Behunin Cageside Press29–28
Hadi Mohamed Ali albiladpress.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Jillian DeCoursey29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Imavov · 80%29-28 Buckley · 8%30-27 Imavov · 6%29-27 Imavov · 2%

133 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.

Nassourdine Imavov

0.74takedowns / 15 min
0.74 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.43 / 15m
2.31 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.18 / 15m
32%
ACCURACY
45%
1.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Joaquin Buckley

1.43takedowns / 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.

Nassourdine Imavov↑ +6.7pp
open 62.1%close 68.8%
Joaquin Buckley↓ −6.7pp
open 37.9%close 31.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nassourdine Imavov opened at 62.1% and closed at 68.8% (+6.7pp), with Joaquin Buckley 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
Nassourdine Imavov-180-25762.1%68.8%+6.7pp
Joaquin Buckley15520737.9%31.2%−6.7pp
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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