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Events · UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan · Ilir Latifi vs Aleksei Oleinik
From the tape · 1 Oct 2022

Ilir Latifi vs Aleksei Oleinik

UFC Fight Night: Dern vs. Yan · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Ilir Latifi beat Aleksei Oleinik

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Jacob Montalvo

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.

IL
Red corner IlirLatifi“The Sledgehammer”Allstars Training Center · Malmo
VSOn the tape
AO
Blue corner AlekseiOleinik“The Boa Constrictor”
Heavyweight3 rounds1 Oct 2022
The story going in
  • Has finished 5 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 8 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Carries 63 points more takedown defence than Oleinik.
  • Lands 1.2 more significant strikes a minute than Latifi.
17-9
Record
60-17-1
−5 yr40
Age
45
5' 10"
Height
+4″6' 2"
73″
Reach
+7″80″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
14
UFC bouts
+216
5/862% of wins
Finishes
+26%8/989% of wins
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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
Ilir Latifi11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 10BODY27%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Aleksei Oleinik4 sig landed
HEAD25%1 of 8BODY0%0 of 1LEGS75%3 of 3
11 of 14
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:16
Control
0:00
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Latifi firstSal D'Amato10–9Anthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Ilir Latifi17 sig landed
HEAD88%15 of 18BODY12%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Aleksei Oleinik17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 17BODY29%5 of 6LEGS41%7 of 7
17 of 21
Sig.
strikes
17 of 30
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:45
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Latifi firstSal D'Amato10–9Anthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ilir Latifi10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 12BODY10%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Aleksei Oleinik7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 21BODY29%2 of 2LEGS29%2 of 5
10 of 13
Sig.
strikes
7 of 28
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:02
Distance 6Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Latifi firstSal D'Amato10–9Anthony Maness10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Jacob Montalvo
Ilir LatifiAleksei Oleinik
Official totals — Ilir Latifi first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Anthony Maness1.9 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide30–27

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 — 12 scored, Ilir Latifi first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Alex Behunin Cageside Press30–27
Ben Davis30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Latifi · 86%29-28 Oleinik · 5%30-26 Latifi · 5%29-28 Latifi · 5%

21 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.

Ilir Latifi

2.11takedowns / 15 min
2.11 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.82 / 15m
6.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.96 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
46%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.90 / 15m

Aleksei Oleinik

1.82takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

The market story

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Ilir Latifi vs Aleksei Oleinik.

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