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Events · UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen · Chidi Njokuani vs Albert Duraev
From the tape · 25 Mar 2023

Chidi Njokuani vs Albert Duraev

UFC Fight Night: Vera vs. Sandhagen · San Antonio, Texas, USA
Result

Albert Duraev beat Chidi Njokuani

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain 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.

Red corner ChidiNjokuani“Bang Bang”Las Vegas, Nevada
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AlbertDuraevXtreme Couture · Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast
Middleweight3 rounds25 Mar 2023
The story going in
  • Is 21 points more accurate striking than Duraev.
  • Averages 2.0 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Njokuani.
26-12
Record
16-5
34
Age
34
+4″6' 3"
Height
5' 11"
+5″80″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+13
UFC bouts
2
2/2100% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast
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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
Chidi Njokuani4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY75%3 of 5LEGS25%1 of 2
Albert Duraev12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 25BODY0%0 landedLEGS8%1 of 1
4 of 8
Sig.
strikes
12 of 26
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:25
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 11
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10Dan Miragliotta9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Chidi Njokuani14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 25BODY7%1 of 5LEGS29%4 of 6
Albert Duraev16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 33BODY0%0 of 2LEGS56%9 of 11
14 of 36
Sig.
strikes
16 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9Dan Miragliotta9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chidi Njokuani22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 42BODY50%11 of 11LEGS9%2 of 2
Albert Duraev17 sig landed
HEAD18%3 of 32BODY12%2 of 4LEGS71%12 of 15
22 of 55
Sig.
strikes
17 of 51
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:37
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Njokuani firstSal D'Amato10–9Chris Lee10–9Dan Miragliotta10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Kerry Hatley
Chidi NjokuaniAlbert Duraev
Official totals — Chidi Njokuani first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Dan Miragliotta28–29

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 — 16 scored, Chidi Njokuani first · unofficial

Alex Behunin MMA Mania28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Jillian DeCoursey28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jake Noecker BetQL28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com28–29
Jack Dankoff Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Dominik Durniat ddreporter Tv29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Njokuani · 63%29-28 Duraev · 32%30-27 Duraev · 3%30-27 Njokuani · 0%

194 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.

Chidi Njokuani

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.97 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
6.79 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
29%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Albert Duraev

1.97takedowns / 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 (5.32 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.

Chidi Njokuani↑ +19.9pp
open 39.3%close 59.3%
Albert Duraev↓ −19.9pp
open 60.7%close 40.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Chidi Njokuani opened at 39.3% and closed at 59.3% (+19.9pp), with Albert Duraev 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
Chidi Njokuani145-16139.3%59.3%+19.9pp
Albert Duraev-17013660.7%40.7%−19.9pp
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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