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Events · UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 · Arnold Allen vs Giga Chikadze
From the tape · 27 Jul 2024

Arnold Allen vs Giga Chikadze

UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2 · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Result

Arnold Allen beat Giga Chikadze

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 ArnoldAllen“Almighty”Felixstowe, Suffolk
VSOn the tape
Blue corner GigaChikadze“Ninja”Kings MMA · Tbilisi
Featherweight3 rounds27 Jul 2024
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 3 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
21-4
Record
15-6
−5 yr30
Age
35
5' 8"
Height
+4″6' 0"
70″
Reach
+4″74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+312
UFC bouts
9
+2%4/1040% of wins
Finishes
3/838% of wins
Felixstowe, Suffolk
From
Tbilisi
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
Arnold Allen13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 17BODY31%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Giga Chikadze14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 22BODY36%5 of 9LEGS14%2 of 2
13 of 22
Sig.
strikes
14 of 33
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Allen firstBen Cartlidge9–10Mark Collett9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Arnold Allen16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 30BODY31%5 of 9LEGS12%2 of 4
Giga Chikadze13 sig landed
HEAD69%9 of 32BODY15%2 of 6LEGS15%2 of 2
16 of 43
Sig.
strikes
13 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Allen firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Arnold Allen32 sig landed
HEAD78%25 of 48BODY22%7 of 8LEGS0%0 of 1
Giga Chikadze11 sig landed
HEAD55%6 of 29BODY45%5 of 9LEGS0%0 landed
32 of 57
Sig.
strikes
11 of 38
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 32Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Allen firstBen Cartlidge10–9Mark Collett10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Arnold AllenGiga Chikadze
Official totals — Arnold Allen first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% wide29–28

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 — 22 scored, Arnold Allen first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Damien Bartonek Fox West Texas29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Jake Noecker Cageside Press29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox The MMA Draw29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs MMAMania.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Allen · 78%29-28 Chikadze · 15%30-27 Allen · 3%30-27 Chikadze · 1%

125 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.

Arnold Allen

1.24takedowns / 15 min
1.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.18 / 15m
2.07 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.55 / 15m
60%
ACCURACY
33%
0.30 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Giga Chikadze

0.18takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Arnold Allen↑ +4.0pp
open 65.7%close 69.8%
Giga Chikadze↓ −4.0pp
open 34.3%close 30.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Arnold Allen opened at 65.7% and closed at 69.8% (+4.0pp), with Giga Chikadze 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
Arnold Allen-218-26965.7%69.8%+4.0pp
Giga Chikadze18021734.3%30.2%−4.0pp
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 2024-07-28 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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