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History · 2023 · UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria · Josh Emmett vs Ilia Topuria
From the tape · 24 Jun 2023

Josh Emmett vs Ilia Topuria

UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria · Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Result

Ilia Topuria beat Josh Emmett

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
5 of 5
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMainReferee · Marc Goddard

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 JoshEmmett“CC0”Team Alpha Male · Sacramento, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner IliaTopuria“El Matador”Topuria Team · Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli
Featherweight5 rounds24 Jun 2023
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 9 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • 12 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Topuria.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
19-7
Record
17-1
38
Age
−12 yr26
5' 6"
Height
+1″5' 7"
+1″70″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+712
UFC bouts
5
3/933% of wins
Finishes
+47%4/580% of wins
Team Alpha Male
Gym
Topuria Team
Sacramento, California
From
Rustavi, Kvemo Kartli
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

5 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Josh Emmett14 sig landed
HEAD57%8 of 58BODY29%4 of 8LEGS14%2 of 2
Ilia Topuria21 sig landed
HEAD67%14 of 47BODY19%4 of 5LEGS14%3 of 4
14 of 68
Sig.
strikes
21 of 56
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Emmett firstEric Colón10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Josh Emmett19 sig landed
HEAD42%8 of 47BODY32%6 of 15LEGS26%5 of 6
Ilia Topuria30 sig landed
HEAD83%25 of 66BODY0%0 landedLEGS17%5 of 9
19 of 68
Sig.
strikes
30 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 5
Judges · this round · Emmett firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of action
Josh Emmett31 sig landed
HEAD52%16 of 60BODY23%7 of 12LEGS26%8 of 9
Ilia Topuria37 sig landed
HEAD81%30 of 80BODY8%3 of 5LEGS11%4 of 6
31 of 81
Sig.
strikes
37 of 91
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Emmett firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee8–10
Round 45:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Topuria
Josh Emmett13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 39BODY46%6 of 12LEGS8%1 of 1
Ilia Topuria56 sig landed
HEAD89%50 of 90BODY4%2 of 6LEGS7%4 of 4
13 of 52
Sig.
strikes
56 of 100
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:58
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 2Ground 28
Judges · this round · Emmett firstEric Colón8–10Sal D'Amato8–10Chris Lee7–10
Round 55:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Josh Emmett10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 28BODY30%3 of 6LEGS20%2 of 2
Ilia Topuria8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS38%3 of 3
10 of 36
Sig.
strikes
8 of 22
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 3
0:00
Control
2:33
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Judges · this round · Emmett firstEric Colón9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10

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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Marc Goddard
Josh EmmettIlia Topuria
Official totals — Josh Emmett first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide45–49
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide44–50
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide42–50

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 — 21 scored, Josh Emmett first · unofficial

E. Casey Leydon43–50
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com43–50
MM AMania.com44–50
Shaun Al- Shatti MMAFighting.com44–50
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com44–50
Steve Duncan mma.uno44–50
Nick Baldwin theScore44–50
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com44–50
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com44–50
Combat Press.com44–50
Sheehan SevereMMA.com44–50
Jake Noecker The Scrap News44–50
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com44–50
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com44–50
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com44–50
MM AJunkie.com44–50
J. L. Kirven Sherdog.com45–50
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com44–49
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com45–49
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com45–49
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com46–49

Fan vote · unofficial

50-44 Topuria · 36%50-43 Topuria · 23%50-42 Topuria · 16%50-41 Topuria · 7%49-45 Topuria · 5%

683 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.

Josh Emmett

1.07takedowns / 15 min
1.07 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.96 / 15m
2.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.21 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
61%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Ilia Topuria

1.96takedowns / 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.

Josh Emmett↓ −10.3pp
open 35.7%close 25.5%
Ilia Topuria↑ +10.3pp
open 64.3%close 74.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Josh Emmett opened at 35.7% and closed at 25.5% (−10.3pp), with Ilia Topuria 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
Josh Emmett17027835.7%25.5%−10.3pp
Ilia Topuria-200-34464.3%74.5%+10.3pp
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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