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Events · UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane · Esteban Ribovics vs Loik Radzhabov
From the tape · 4 Mar 2023

Esteban Ribovics vs Loik Radzhabov

UFC 285: Jones vs. Gane · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Loik Radzhabov beat Esteban Ribovics

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
LightweightMain cardReferee · Mark Smith

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 EstebanRibovics“El Gringo”Kill Cliff FC · Tartagal, Salta
VSOn the tape
Blue corner LoikRadzhabov“The Tajik Tank”Kill Cliff FC · Dushanbe
Lightweight3 rounds4 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Lands 4.4 more significant strikes a minute than Radzhabov.
  • Averages 4.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ribovics.
16-3
Record
18-6-1
−6 yr26
Age
32
5' 10"
Height
+1″5' 11"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kill Cliff FC
Gym
Kill Cliff FC
Tartagal, Salta
From
Dushanbe
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
Esteban Ribovics14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 28BODY21%3 of 3LEGS7%1 of 1
Loik Radzhabov8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 22BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
14 of 32
Sig.
strikes
8 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 5
0:00
Control
3:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ribovics firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Ribovics
Esteban Ribovics25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 40BODY24%6 of 6LEGS4%1 of 1
Loik Radzhabov13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 26BODY15%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
25 of 47
Sig.
strikes
13 of 28
0 of 1
Take-
downs
4 of 9
0:04
Control
2:24
1
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ribovics firstAdalaide Byrd10–9Ben Cartlidge10–9Derek Cleary10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Esteban Ribovics27 sig landed
HEAD89%24 of 46BODY7%2 of 3LEGS4%1 of 1
Loik Radzhabov19 sig landed
HEAD79%15 of 30BODY21%4 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 50
Sig.
strikes
19 of 34
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 7
0:27
Control
2:15
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 26Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 2
Judges · this round · Ribovics firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Ben Cartlidge9–10Derek Cleary9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Esteban RibovicsLoik Radzhabov
Official totals — Esteban Ribovics first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide28–29
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% 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 — 17 scored, Esteban Ribovics first · unofficial

Combat Press.com28–29
MM AJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com28–29
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News28–29
Bloody Elbow.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Alex Behunin Cageside Press28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Eric Kowal MyMMANews.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jake Noecker BetQL29–29
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28
Shane Clifford Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Radzhabov · 51%29-28 Ribovics · 38%30-27 Radzhabov · 3%

65 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.

Esteban Ribovics

0.35takedowns / 15 min
0.35 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.65 / 15m
0.53 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.16 / 15m
66%
ACCURACY
57%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Loik Radzhabov

4.65takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Esteban Ribovics↑ +2.6pp
open 31.1%close 33.7%
Loik Radzhabov↓ −2.6pp
open 68.9%close 66.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Esteban Ribovics opened at 31.1% and closed at 33.7% (+2.6pp), with Loik Radzhabov 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
Esteban Ribovics21018431.1%33.7%+2.6pp
Loik Radzhabov-250-22668.9%66.3%−2.6pp
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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