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History · 2023 · UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo · Movsar Evloev vs Diego Lopes
From the tape · 6 May 2023

Movsar Evloev vs Diego Lopes

UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo · Newark, New Jersey, USA
Result

Movsar Evloev beat Diego Lopes

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 MovsarEvloevAmerican Top Team · Sunzha, Ingushetia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner DiegoLopesLobo Gym MMA · Manaus, Amazonas
Featherweight3 rounds6 May 2023
The story going in
  • Unbeaten — 6-0 in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.9 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lopes.
20-0
Record
28-8
29
Age
−1 yr28
5' 7"
Height
+4″5' 11"
72″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team
Gym
Lobo Gym MMA
Sunzha, Ingushetia
From
Manaus, Amazonas
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 action1 sub attempt
Movsar Evloev16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 20BODY6%1 of 1LEGS6%1 of 1
Diego Lopes17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 22BODY0%0 of 1LEGS24%4 of 4
16 of 22
Sig.
strikes
17 of 27
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:34
Control
0:25
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 7
Judges · this round · Evloev firstDerek Cleary9–10Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Movsar Evloev39 sig landed
HEAD95%37 of 63BODY5%2 of 2LEGS0%0 of 1
Diego Lopes10 sig landed
HEAD70%7 of 20BODY30%3 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
39 of 66
Sig.
strikes
10 of 24
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:20
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 17
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evloev firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Dave Tirelli10–9
Round 35:00 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 5:00
Movsar Evloev33 sig landed
HEAD76%25 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS24%8 of 8
Diego Lopes10 sig landed
HEAD90%9 of 15BODY10%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 41
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:36
Control
0:16
0
Sub
attempts
3
Distance 17Clinch 10Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evloev firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón9–10Dave Tirelli10–9

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 · Keith Peterson
Movsar EvloevDiego Lopes
Official totals — Movsar Evloev first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% 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 — 16 scored, Movsar Evloev first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jake Noecker The Scrap News29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Lopes · 45%29-28 Evloev · 32%30-27 Evloev · 15%30-26 Evloev · 3%29-27 Evloev · 2%

554 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.

Movsar Evloev

4.78takedowns / 15 min
4.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.88 / 15m
9.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.76 / 15m
52%
ACCURACY
50%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.40 / 15m

Diego Lopes

0.88takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Movsar Evloev↑ +2.5pp
open 84.0%close 86.5%
Diego Lopes↓ −2.5pp
open 16.0%close 13.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Movsar Evloev opened at 84.0% and closed at 86.5% (+2.5pp), with Diego Lopes 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
Movsar Evloev-704-99284.0%86.5%+2.5pp
Diego Lopes50060716.0%13.5%−2.5pp
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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