Round 1⚡ 1 KD Volkov
15 of 39
Sig.
strikes
strikes
51 of 83
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 50Clinch 1Ground 0
From the tape · 9 Sep 2023
Tai Tuivasa vs Alexander Volkov
UFC 293: Adesanya vs. Strickland · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Result
Alexander Volkov beat Tai Tuivasa
HeavyweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean
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.
VSOn the tape
The story going in
- Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
- Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
- Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
- Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
15-10
Record
40-11
−4 yr30
Age
34
6' 2"
Height
+5″6' 7"
75″
Reach
+5″80″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
13
UFC bouts
+114
+28%7/888% of wins
Finishes
6/1060% of wins
Lions High Performance Centre
Gym
Strela Team
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Moscow
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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
2 rounds of tape
Round 21 sub attemptEnded 4:37
13 of 28
Sig.
strikes
strikes
42 of 60
0 of 0
Take-
downs
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:28
0
Knock-
downs
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
attempts
1
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 18
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.
How it ended
This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.
Won inside the distance
Alexander Volkov
Round
2
Clock
4:37
Method
Submission
This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Herb Dean.
Takedowns
Takedowns
The level change — head to head
Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.
Tai Tuivasa
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.54 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
0.87 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
62%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m
58%
TD DEFENCE
68%
Alexander Volkov
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.
Tai Tuivasa↓ −5.4pp
open 39.0%close 33.5%
Alexander Volkov↑ +5.4pp
open 61.0%close 66.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)
Tai Tuivasa opened at 39.0% and closed at 33.5% (−5.4pp), with Alexander Volkov 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
| Corner | Open (US) | Close (US) | Open % | Close % | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tai Tuivasa | 140 | 185 | 39.0% | 33.5% | −5.4pp |
| Alexander Volkov | -188 | -229 | 61.0% | 66.5% | +5.4pp |
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% · dated 2023-09-10 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · scraped 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.