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Events · UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov · Alexandr Romanov vs Blagoy Ivanov
From the tape · 1 Jul 2023

Alexandr Romanov vs Blagoy Ivanov

UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Alexandr Romanov beat Blagoy Ivanov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Kerry Hatley

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 AlexandrRomanov“King Kong”
VSOn the tape
BI
Blue corner BlagoyIvanov“Baga”SK Absolute Bulgaria · Sofia
Heavyweight3 rounds1 Jul 2023
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Romanov.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
18-3
Record
19-6
−4 yr32
Age
36
+3″6' 2"
Height
5' 11"
+2″75″
Reach
73″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
7
UFC bouts
7
+80%4/580% of wins
Finishes
0/30% of wins
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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
Alexandr Romanov17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 19BODY29%5 of 5LEGS41%7 of 7
Blagoy Ivanov13 sig landed
HEAD85%11 of 27BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
17 of 31
Sig.
strikes
13 of 29
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:07
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 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
Alexandr Romanov22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 31BODY9%2 of 2LEGS36%8 of 8
Blagoy Ivanov9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 26BODY22%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
22 of 41
Sig.
strikes
9 of 28
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:43
Control
0:00
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 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
Alexandr Romanov46 sig landed
HEAD76%35 of 71BODY9%4 of 4LEGS15%7 of 7
Blagoy Ivanov22 sig landed
HEAD91%20 of 49BODY9%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
46 of 82
Sig.
strikes
22 of 51
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:03
Control
0:00
Distance 40Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 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 - Unanimous

Referee · Kerry Hatley
Official totals — Alexandr Romanov first
JudgeTotal
Mike Bell1.9 avg spread · 37% wide30–27
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Sal D'amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27

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.

Alexandr Romanov

4.49takedowns / 15 min
4.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.69 / 15m
8.16 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.72 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
40%
0.90 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Blagoy Ivanov

0.69takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Alexandr Romanov↑ +3.7pp
open 52.0%close 55.7%
Blagoy Ivanov↓ −3.7pp
open 48.0%close 44.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexandr Romanov opened at 52.0% and closed at 55.7% (+3.7pp), with Blagoy Ivanov 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
Alexandr Romanov-125-14152.0%55.7%+3.7pp
Blagoy Ivanov-10511548.0%44.3%−3.7pp
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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