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Events · UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria · Merab Dvalishvili vs Henry Cejudo
From the tape · 17 Feb 2024

Merab Dvalishvili vs Henry Cejudo

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

Merab Dvalishvili beat Henry Cejudo

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jonathan Romero

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 MerabDvalishvili“The Machine”Serra-Longo Fight Team · Tbilisi
VSOn the tape
HC
Blue corner HenryCejudo“Triple C”Fight Ready · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds17 Feb 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 9-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Averages 4.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Cejudo.
21-5
Record
16-6
−4 yr33
Age
37
+2″5' 6"
Height
5' 4"
+4″68″
Reach
64″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
11
UFC bouts
+213
1/911% of wins
Finishes
+29%4/1040% of wins
Serra-Longo Fight Team
Gym
Fight Ready
Tbilisi
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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
Merab Dvalishvili16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 22BODY25%4 of 7LEGS19%3 of 3
Henry Cejudo11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 13BODY27%3 of 3LEGS36%4 of 4
16 of 32
Sig.
strikes
11 of 20
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
1:53
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell9–10Raphael Davis9–10Chris Leben9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Merab Dvalishvili34 sig landed
HEAD65%22 of 61BODY26%9 of 14LEGS9%3 of 3
Henry Cejudo9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 22BODY22%2 of 5LEGS11%1 of 2
34 of 78
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
2 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:46
Control
0:12
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 27Clinch 1Ground 6
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell10–9Raphael Davis10–9Chris Leben10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Merab Dvalishvili24 sig landed
HEAD54%13 of 45BODY29%7 of 13LEGS17%4 of 4
Henry Cejudo9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 19BODY0%0 of 3LEGS67%6 of 7
24 of 62
Sig.
strikes
9 of 29
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 2
2:24
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 15Clinch 6Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dvalishvili firstMichael Bell10–9Raphael Davis10–9Chris Leben10–9

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 · Jonathan Romero
Merab DvalishviliHenry Cejudo
Official totals — Merab Dvalishvili first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell29–28
Raphael Davis29–28
Chris Leben29–28

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 — 25 scored, Merab Dvalishvili first · unofficial

Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Bloody Elbow.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Shakiel Mahjouri CBS Sports29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dvalishvili · 77%30-27 Dvalishvili · 8%29-27 Dvalishvili · 7%29-28 Cejudo · 4%29-26 Dvalishvili · 1%

298 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.

Merab Dvalishvili

5.97takedowns / 15 min
5.97 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.78 / 15m
17.06 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
6.14 / 15m
35%
ACCURACY
29%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Henry Cejudo

1.78takedowns / 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.

Merab Dvalishvili↑ +26.3pp
open 44.9%close 71.2%
Henry Cejudo↓ −26.3pp
open 55.1%close 28.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Merab Dvalishvili opened at 44.9% and closed at 71.2% (+26.3pp), with Henry Cejudo 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
Merab Dvalishvili114-30244.9%71.2%+26.3pp
Henry Cejudo-13522955.1%28.8%−26.3pp
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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