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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Farid Basharat vs Taylor Lapilus
From the tape · 13 Jan 2024

Farid Basharat vs Taylor Lapilus

UFC Fight Night: Ankalaev vs. Walker 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Farid Basharat beat Taylor Lapilus

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 FaridBasharat“Ferocious”American Top Team · London
VSOn the tape
Blue corner TaylorLapilus“Double Impact”MMA Factory · Paris
Bantamweight3 rounds13 Jan 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 3.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Lapilus.
  • Carries 23 points more takedown defence than Basharat.
16-0
Record
21-4
−5 yr26
Age
31
+2″5' 8"
Height
5' 6"
71″
Reach
+2″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
2
UFC bouts
+35
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/425% of wins
American Top Team
Gym
MMA Factory
London
From
Paris
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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Farid Basharat14 sig landed
HEAD14%2 of 16BODY7%1 of 7LEGS79%11 of 12
Taylor Lapilus14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 19BODY43%6 of 6LEGS7%1 of 4
14 of 35
Sig.
strikes
14 of 29
1 of 8
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
0:02
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Basharat firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Farid Basharat15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 17BODY27%4 of 9LEGS33%5 of 7
Taylor Lapilus19 sig landed
HEAD58%11 of 28BODY26%5 of 7LEGS16%3 of 4
15 of 33
Sig.
strikes
19 of 39
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:28
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Basharat firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Farid Basharat13 sig landed
HEAD46%6 of 20BODY15%2 of 3LEGS38%5 of 9
Taylor Lapilus7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 20BODY0%0 of 3LEGS14%1 of 2
13 of 32
Sig.
strikes
7 of 25
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:53
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Basharat firstMichael Bell10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Junichiro Kamijo10–9

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 · Chris Tognoni
Farid BasharatTaylor Lapilus
Official totals — Farid Basharat first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell30–27
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27

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 — 15 scored, Farid Basharat first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
MM AJunkie.com30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com30–27
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Chris De Santiago MiddleEasy.com30–27
Bloody Elbow.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Patrick McCorry Cageside Press30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Basharat · 70%29-28 Basharat · 23%29-28 Lapilus · 3%30-27 Lapilus · 3%

30 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.

Farid Basharat

3.34takedowns / 15 min
3.34 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.27 / 15m
7.59 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.82 / 15m
44%
ACCURACY
33%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.30 / 15m

Taylor Lapilus

0.27takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Farid Basharat↑ +8.6pp
open 63.7%close 72.3%
Taylor Lapilus↓ −8.6pp
open 36.3%close 27.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Farid Basharat opened at 63.7% and closed at 72.3% (+8.6pp), with Taylor Lapilus 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
Farid Basharat-198-31963.7%72.3%+8.6pp
Taylor Lapilus16424336.3%27.7%−8.6pp
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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