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History · 2024 · UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Anthony Hernandez vs Roman Kopylov
From the tape · 17 Feb 2024

Anthony Hernandez vs Roman Kopylov

UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Anaheim, California, USA
Result

Anthony Hernandez beat Roman Kopylov

Method
Submission
Round
2 of 3
Clock
3:23
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 AnthonyHernandez“Fluffy”MMA Gold Fight Team · Dunnigan, California
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RomanKopylovRaty Team · Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
Middleweight3 rounds17 Feb 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Kopylov’s 4 UFC wins came inside the distance.
15-4
Record
15-5
−1 yr30
Age
31
6' 0"
Height
6' 0"
75″
Reach
75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+17
UFC bouts
6
4/580% of wins
Finishes
+20%4/4100% of wins
MMA Gold Fight Team
Gym
Raty Team
Dunnigan, California
From
Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
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
Anthony Hernandez20 sig landed
HEAD80%16 of 35BODY15%3 of 5LEGS5%1 of 2
Roman Kopylov16 sig landed
HEAD50%8 of 21BODY19%3 of 3LEGS31%5 of 5
20 of 42
Sig.
strikes
16 of 29
1 of 11
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:05
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 23:23 of action2 sub attemptsEnded 3:23
Anthony Hernandez14 sig landed
HEAD86%12 of 33BODY7%1 of 1LEGS7%1 of 1
Roman Kopylov19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 22BODY26%5 of 5LEGS5%1 of 1
14 of 35
Sig.
strikes
19 of 28
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:00
Control
0:00
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0

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

Anthony Hernandez

Round
2
Clock
3:23
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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Anthony Hernandez

5.88takedowns / 15 min
5.88 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
12.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.24 / 15m
48%
ACCURACY
50%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Roman Kopylov

1.12takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Anthony Hernandez↑ +3.7pp
open 61.6%close 65.4%
Roman Kopylov↓ −3.7pp
open 38.4%close 34.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Anthony Hernandez opened at 61.6% and closed at 65.4% (+3.7pp), with Roman Kopylov 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
Anthony Hernandez-180-21761.6%65.4%+3.7pp
Roman Kopylov15017638.4%34.6%−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% · dated 2024-02-18 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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