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Events · UFC Fight Night: Tybura vs. Spivac 2 · Danny Barlow vs Nikolay Veretennikov
From the tape · 10 Aug 2024

Danny Barlow vs Nikolay Veretennikov

UFC Fight Night: Tybura vs. Spivac 2 · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Danny Barlow beat Nikolay Veretennikov

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

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 DannyBarlow“LeftHand2God”Law School MMA · Memphis, Tennessee
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NikolayVeretennikovKings MMA · Astana
Welterweight3 rounds10 Aug 2024
9-2
Record
14-8
−5 yr29
Age
34
+1″6' 2"
Height
6' 1"
+5″79″
Reach
74″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Law School MMA
Gym
Kings MMA
Memphis, Tennessee
From
Astana
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
Danny Barlow17 sig landed
HEAD29%5 of 14BODY24%4 of 7LEGS47%8 of 11
Nikolay Veretennikov10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 5BODY70%7 of 9LEGS10%1 of 1
17 of 32
Sig.
strikes
10 of 15
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:17
Control
0:02
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barlow firstRon McCarthy10–9Bryan Miner10–9Jerin Valel9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Danny Barlow11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 16BODY9%1 of 3LEGS27%3 of 6
Nikolay Veretennikov11 sig landed
HEAD27%3 of 18BODY45%5 of 8LEGS27%3 of 3
11 of 25
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:07
Distance 10Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barlow firstRon McCarthy10–9Bryan Miner10–9Jerin Valel9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Danny Barlow19 sig landed
HEAD68%13 of 33BODY11%2 of 3LEGS21%4 of 6
Nikolay Veretennikov29 sig landed
HEAD62%18 of 36BODY34%10 of 11LEGS3%1 of 1
19 of 42
Sig.
strikes
29 of 48
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:14
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Barlow firstRon McCarthy9–10Bryan Miner9–10Jerin Valel9–10

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

Split Decision

Referee · Mike Beltran
Danny BarlowNikolay Veretennikov
Official totals — Danny Barlow first
JudgeTotal
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Bryan Miner2.0 avg spread · 42% wide29–28
Jerin Valel27–30

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 — 10 scored, Danny Barlow first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Chris De Santiago Sports Illustrated29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Barlow · 65%29-28 Veretennikov · 24%30-27 Veretennikov · 11%

37 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.

Danny Barlow

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.40 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
2.50 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
16%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Nikolay Veretennikov

0.40takedowns / 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.

Danny Barlow↑ +6.3pp
open 71.0%close 77.2%
Nikolay Veretennikov↓ −6.3pp
open 29.0%close 22.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Danny Barlow opened at 71.0% and closed at 77.2% (+6.3pp), with Nikolay Veretennikov 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
Danny Barlow-285-42671.0%77.2%+6.3pp
Nikolay Veretennikov23031929.0%22.8%−6.3pp
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 2024-08-11 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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