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Events · UFC Fight Night: Emmett vs. Topuria · Zhalgas Zhumagulov vs Joshua Van
From the tape · 24 Jun 2023

Zhalgas Zhumagulov vs Joshua Van

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

Joshua Van beat Zhalgas Zhumagulov

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Andrew Glenn

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.

ZZ
Red corner ZhalgasZhumagulovAmerican Top Team · Aktobe
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoshuaVan“The Fearless”4oz. Fight Club · Hakha, Chin
Flyweight3 rounds24 Jun 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 3.2 more significant strikes a minute than Zhumagulov.
14-9
Record
17-2
34
Age
−13 yr21
5' 4"
Height
+1″5' 5"
+1″66″
Reach
65″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
American Top Team
Gym
4oz. Fight Club
Aktobe
From
Hakha, Chin
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Zhalgas Zhumagulov26 sig landed
HEAD38%10 of 54BODY38%10 of 14LEGS23%6 of 9
Joshua Van25 sig landed
HEAD44%11 of 29BODY44%11 of 15LEGS12%3 of 4
26 of 77
Sig.
strikes
25 of 48
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:10
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 2Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 25:00 of action
Zhalgas Zhumagulov38 sig landed
HEAD61%23 of 72BODY18%7 of 14LEGS21%8 of 8
Joshua Van51 sig landed
HEAD71%36 of 81BODY20%10 of 14LEGS10%5 of 5
38 of 94
Sig.
strikes
51 of 100
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
Distance 38Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 40Clinch 11Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Zhalgas Zhumagulov39 sig landed
HEAD31%12 of 75BODY28%11 of 20LEGS41%16 of 21
Joshua Van44 sig landed
HEAD70%31 of 69BODY18%8 of 12LEGS11%5 of 5
39 of 116
Sig.
strikes
44 of 86
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 38Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 43Clinch 1Ground 0
JudgesNo per-round card for this bout in our decisions source — the judges’ totals are in the scorecards section below.

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.

Judges’ scorecards

The judges’ totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Split

Referee · Andrew Glenn
Official totals — Zhalgas Zhumagulov first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
Barry Luxenberg29–28
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide28–29

There is no per-round card for this bout in our decisions source, so the judges’ totals are all we can show. This one is inside the window our source covers — it is a gap in the record, not a scrape we are waiting on, and nothing here is estimated to fill it.

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.

Zhalgas Zhumagulov

1.30takedowns / 15 min
1.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.82 / 15m
6.84 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.34 / 15m
19%
ACCURACY
61%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Joshua Van

0.82takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Zhalgas Zhumagulov↑ +4.1pp
open 61.0%close 65.1%
Joshua Van↓ −4.1pp
open 39.0%close 34.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Zhalgas Zhumagulov opened at 61.0% and closed at 65.1% (+4.1pp), with Joshua Van 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
Zhalgas Zhumagulov-188-21461.0%65.1%+4.1pp
Joshua Van14017439.0%34.9%−4.1pp
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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