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Events · UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · CJ Vergara vs Asu Almabayev
From the tape · 9 Mar 2024

CJ Vergara vs Asu Almabayev

UFC 299: O'Malley vs. Vera 2 · Miami, Florida, USA
Result

Asu Almabayev beat CJ Vergara

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Keith Peterson

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 CJVergara
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AsuAlmabayevAlmaty
Flyweight3 rounds9 Mar 2024
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 4.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Vergara.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Almabayev.
12-7-1
Record
24-3
32
Age
−2 yr30
+2″5' 6"
Height
5' 4"
+3″68″
Reach
65″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
1/333% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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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
CJ Vergara7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 9BODY43%3 of 3LEGS14%1 of 2
Asu Almabayev16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 15BODY19%3 of 4LEGS38%6 of 6
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
16 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 6
0:14
Control
3:14
Distance 4Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 4
Judges · this round · Vergara firstSal D'Amato9–10Michael Tate9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 25:00 of action
CJ Vergara8 sig landed
HEAD62%5 of 8BODY25%2 of 3LEGS12%1 of 1
Asu Almabayev12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 19BODY8%1 of 1LEGS8%1 of 1
8 of 12
Sig.
strikes
12 of 21
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 2
0:00
Control
3:35
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Vergara firstSal D'Amato9–10Michael Tate9–10Dave Tirelli9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
CJ Vergara14 sig landed
HEAD36%5 of 15BODY64%9 of 11LEGS0%0 of 1
Asu Almabayev16 sig landed
HEAD31%5 of 19BODY31%5 of 6LEGS38%6 of 6
14 of 27
Sig.
strikes
16 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
3 of 6
0:00
Control
2:43
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 5Ground 2
Judges · this round · Vergara firstSal D'Amato9–10Michael Tate9–10Dave Tirelli9–10

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 · Keith Peterson
CJ VergaraAsu Almabayev
Official totals — CJ Vergara first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Michael Tate27–30
Dave Tirelli2.2 avg spread · 56% wide27–30

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 — 12 scored, CJ Vergara first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com27–30
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News27–30
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30
MM AMania.com27–30
Val Dewar Cageside Press27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Almabayev · 79%30-26 Almabayev · 13%30-24 Almabayev · 5%28-26 Almabayev · 3%

38 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.

CJ Vergara

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.46 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
10.62 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
42%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.50 / 15m

Asu Almabayev

4.46takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

CJ Vergara vs Asu Almabayev.

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