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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Nicolas Dalby vs Muslim Salikhov
From the tape · 17 Jun 2023

Nicolas Dalby vs Muslim Salikhov

UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Cannonier · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nicolas Dalby beat Muslim Salikhov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain 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.

ND
Red corner NicolasDalby“Danish Dynamite”Rumble Sports · Copenhagen
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MuslimSalikhov“King of Kung Fu”Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School · Buynaksk, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds17 Jun 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Carries 10 points more striking defence than Dalby.
24-6-1
Record
22-6
−1 yr38
Age
39
5' 11"
Height
5' 11"
+4″74″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+210
UFC bouts
8
0/50% of wins
Finishes
+50%3/650% of wins
Rumble Sports
Gym
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School
Copenhagen
From
Buynaksk, Dagestan
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
Nicolas Dalby21 sig landed
HEAD33%7 of 25BODY29%6 of 8LEGS38%8 of 11
Muslim Salikhov27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 26BODY41%11 of 17LEGS7%2 of 2
21 of 44
Sig.
strikes
27 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:07
Control
0:18
Distance 17Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 27Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstMichael Bell9–10Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nicolas Dalby17 sig landed
HEAD53%9 of 17BODY41%7 of 9LEGS6%1 of 1
Muslim Salikhov10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 9BODY50%5 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 27
Sig.
strikes
10 of 14
1 of 3
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:21
Control
0:27
Distance 6Clinch 8Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nicolas Dalby48 sig landed
HEAD52%25 of 42BODY48%23 of 26LEGS0%0 of 1
Muslim Salikhov20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 23BODY25%5 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
48 of 69
Sig.
strikes
20 of 29
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:08
Control
0:10
Distance 20Clinch 24Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 12Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstMichael Bell10–9Derek Cleary10–9Sal D'Amato10–9

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 · Mark Smith
Nicolas DalbyMuslim Salikhov
Official totals — Nicolas Dalby first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% 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 — 12 scored, Nicolas Dalby first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Edwin Ayala Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dalby · 76%30-27 Dalby · 22%29-28 Salikhov · 2%

55 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.

Nicolas Dalby

0.90takedowns / 15 min
0.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.07 / 15m
3.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.34 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
32%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Muslim Salikhov

1.07takedowns / 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.

Nicolas Dalby vs Muslim Salikhov.

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