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Events · UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi · Abubakar Nurmagomedov vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos
From the tape · 3 Jun 2023

Abubakar Nurmagomedov vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos beat Abubakar Nurmagomedov

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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.

AN
Red corner AbubakarNurmagomedovFightspirit Team · Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Elizeu Zaleski dosSantos“Capoeira”CM System · Francisco Beltrao, Parana
Welterweight3 rounds3 Jun 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Carries 21 points more takedown defence than Santos.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Nurmagomedov.
17-4-1
Record
25-10-1
−3 yr33
Age
36
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
+912
0/20% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
Fightspirit Team
Gym
CM System
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Francisco Beltrao, Parana
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
Abubakar Nurmagomedov12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 9BODY17%2 of 2LEGS42%5 of 5
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 21BODY50%5 of 10LEGS20%2 of 3
12 of 16
Sig.
strikes
10 of 34
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:39
Control
0:00
Distance 6Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy9–10Bryan Miner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Abubakar Nurmagomedov5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 13BODY40%2 of 2LEGS20%1 of 1
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos14 sig landed
HEAD21%3 of 17BODY29%4 of 6LEGS50%7 of 9
5 of 16
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:20
Control
0:06
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstDerek Cleary10–9Ron McCarthy10–9Bryan Miner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Abubakar Nurmagomedov12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 15BODY17%2 of 3LEGS33%4 of 4
Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos18 sig landed
HEAD56%10 of 37BODY22%4 of 6LEGS22%4 of 4
12 of 22
Sig.
strikes
18 of 47
0 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:17
Control
0:09
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstDerek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10Bryan Miner9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Abubakar NurmagomedovElizeu Zaleski dos Santos
Official totals — Abubakar Nurmagomedov first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide28–29
Bryan Miner2.0 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 — 11 scored, Abubakar Nurmagomedov first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Santos Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com28–29
Santos Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Santos MMAJunkie.com28–29
Santos Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Santos Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Santos Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Santos MMAMania.com28–29
Santos Dan Levi Best Fight Picks28–29
Santos CombatPress.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Zaleski dos Santos · 56%29-28 Nurmagomedov · 29%30-27 Zaleski dos Santos · 9%30-27 Nurmagomedov · 4%

107 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.

Abubakar Nurmagomedov

1.25takedowns / 15 min
1.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.79 / 15m
5.68 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.95 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
20%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos

0.79takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Abubakar Nurmagomedov vs Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos.

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