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Events · UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington · Tagir Ulanbekov vs Cody Durden
From the tape · 16 Dec 2023

Tagir Ulanbekov vs Cody Durden

UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Tagir Ulanbekov beat Cody Durden

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:25
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 TagirUlanbekovEagles MMA · Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner CodyDurden“Custom Made”American Top Team Atlanta · Covington, Georgia
Flyweight3 rounds16 Dec 2023
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Ulanbekov.
17-3
Record
18-11-1
32
Age
32
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
+3″70″
Reach
67″
Southpaw
Stance
Southpaw
4
UFC bouts
+48
+13%1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
Eagles MMA
Gym
American Top Team Atlanta
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Covington, Georgia
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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Ulanbekov2 sub attempts
Tagir Ulanbekov18 sig landed
HEAD72%13 of 28BODY22%4 of 5LEGS6%1 of 1
Cody Durden23 sig landed
HEAD61%14 of 22BODY9%2 of 2LEGS30%7 of 9
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
23 of 33
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:11
Control
0:29
1
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 3Ground 2
Round 24:25 of action3 sub attemptsEnded 4:25
Tagir Ulanbekov6 sig landed
HEAD100%6 of 7BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Cody Durden9 sig landed
HEAD89%8 of 9BODY11%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
6 of 7
Sig.
strikes
9 of 10
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:52
Control
0:07
0
Knock-
downs
0
3
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 0Ground 3

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

Tagir Ulanbekov

Round
2
Clock
4:25
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: Chris Tognoni.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Tagir Ulanbekov

2.73takedowns / 15 min
2.73 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.99 / 15m
7.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.14 / 15m
39%
ACCURACY
49%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.70 / 15m

Cody Durden

3.99takedowns / 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.

Tagir Ulanbekov↑ +7.7pp
open 53.2%close 61.0%
Cody Durden↓ −7.7pp
open 46.8%close 39.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Tagir Ulanbekov opened at 53.2% and closed at 61.0% (+7.7pp), with Cody Durden 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
Tagir Ulanbekov-125-17453.2%61.0%+7.7pp
Cody Durden10514646.8%39.0%−7.7pp
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% · dated 2023-12-17 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.
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