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History · 2024 · UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Cortez · Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Muslim Salikhov
From the tape · 13 Jul 2024

Santiago Ponzinibbio vs Muslim Salikhov

UFC Fight Night: Namajunas vs. Cortez · Denver, Colorado, USA
Result

Muslim Salikhov beat Santiago Ponzinibbio

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightCo-MainReferee · Dan Miragliotta

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 SantiagoPonzinibbio“Argentine Dagger”
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MuslimSalikhov“King of Kung Fu”Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School · Buynaksk, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds13 Jul 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 17 UFC bouts deep — 7 more than Salikhov.
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
31-10
Record
22-6
−3 yr37
Age
40
+1″6' 0"
Height
5' 11"
+3″73″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+717
UFC bouts
10
+5%6/1155% of wins
Finishes
3/650% of wins
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
Santiago Ponzinibbio14 sig landed
HEAD64%9 of 36BODY29%4 of 5LEGS7%1 of 2
Muslim Salikhov17 sig landed
HEAD41%7 of 27BODY47%8 of 8LEGS12%2 of 2
14 of 43
Sig.
strikes
17 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 4
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstDean Abeyta9–10Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Santiago Ponzinibbio16 sig landed
HEAD81%13 of 41BODY0%0 of 1LEGS19%3 of 3
Muslim Salikhov14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 37BODY29%4 of 8LEGS21%3 of 3
16 of 45
Sig.
strikes
14 of 48
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:22
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstDean Abeyta9–10Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Santiago Ponzinibbio11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 25BODY9%1 of 1LEGS9%1 of 3
Muslim Salikhov15 sig landed
HEAD40%6 of 23BODY53%8 of 11LEGS7%1 of 2
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
15 of 36
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:01
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ponzinibbio firstDean Abeyta10–9Eric Colón9–10Chris Lee10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Dan Miragliotta
Santiago PonzinibbioMuslim Salikhov
Official totals — Santiago Ponzinibbio first
JudgeTotal
Dean Abeyta28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide29–28
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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 — 13 scored, Santiago Ponzinibbio first · unofficial

Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Val Dewar Cageside Press29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ponzinibbio · 43%29-28 Salikhov · 34%30-27 Ponzinibbio · 18%30-27 Salikhov · 3%

126 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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio

0.60takedowns / 15 min
0.60 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.07 / 15m
2.22 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.34 / 15m
27%
ACCURACY
32%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Muslim Salikhov

1.07takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Santiago Ponzinibbio↑ +4.5pp
open 57.2%close 61.7%
Muslim Salikhov↓ −4.5pp
open 42.8%close 38.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Santiago Ponzinibbio opened at 57.2% and closed at 61.7% (+4.5pp), with Muslim Salikhov 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
Santiago Ponzinibbio-148-18257.2%61.7%+4.5pp
Muslim Salikhov12415042.8%38.3%−4.5pp
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 2024-07-14 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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