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Events · UFC Fight Night: Kara-France vs. Albazi · John Castaneda vs Muin Gafurov
From the tape · 3 Jun 2023

John Castaneda vs Muin Gafurov

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

John Castaneda beat Muin Gafurov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 JohnCastaneda“Sexi Mexi”The Academy · Mankato, Minnesota
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MuinGafurov“Tajik”Dushanbe
Bantamweight3 rounds3 Jun 2023
21-8-1
Record
20-7
31
Age
−4 yr27
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
Mankato, Minnesota
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⚡ 1 KD Castaneda
John Castaneda18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 21BODY11%2 of 5LEGS28%5 of 6
Muin Gafurov21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 33BODY19%4 of 7LEGS14%3 of 4
18 of 32
Sig.
strikes
21 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:51
Control
0:11
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castaneda firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 25:00 of action
John Castaneda15 sig landed
HEAD93%14 of 38BODY7%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Muin Gafurov29 sig landed
HEAD79%23 of 78BODY17%5 of 7LEGS3%1 of 1
15 of 40
Sig.
strikes
29 of 86
1 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:40
Control
1:14
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 9Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castaneda firstJunichiro Kamijo9–9Chris Lee9–9Tony Weeks9–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Castaneda7 sig landed
HEAD71%5 of 14BODY14%1 of 1LEGS14%1 of 1
Muin Gafurov11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 24BODY18%2 of 2LEGS9%1 of 1
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:45
Control
0:30
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Castaneda firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9Tony 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 · Chris Tognoni
John CastanedaMuin Gafurov
Official totals — John Castaneda first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–27
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide29–27

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, John Castaneda first · unofficial

Bloody Elbow.com29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–27
Combat Press.com29–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–27
MM AJunkie.com29–27
MM AMania.com29–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Castaneda · 75%30-26 Castaneda · 4%29-27 Gafurov · 4%28-27 Castaneda · 4%

24 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.

John Castaneda

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.57 / 15m
4.03 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.61 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
28%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Muin Gafurov

1.57takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

John Castaneda↓ −1.8pp
open 54.9%close 53.1%
Muin Gafurov↑ +1.8pp
open 45.1%close 46.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

John Castaneda opened at 54.9% and closed at 53.1% (−1.8pp), with Muin Gafurov 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
John Castaneda-138-12554.9%53.1%−1.8pp
Muin Gafurov11010445.1%46.9%+1.8pp
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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