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History · 2024 · UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway · Magomed Ankalaev vs Aleksandar Rakic
From the tape · 26 Oct 2024

Magomed Ankalaev vs Aleksandar Rakic

UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Magomed Ankalaev beat Aleksandar Rakic

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
Light HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Vitor Ribeiro

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 MagomedAnkalaevGorets Fight Club · Makhachkala, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AleksandarRakic“Rocket”Vienna
Light Heavyweight3 rounds26 Oct 2024
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 13 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Rakic.
  • Has finished 2 of 6 UFC wins.
22-2-1
Record
15-6
32
Age
32
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
75″
Reach
+3″78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+413
UFC bouts
9
+27%6/1060% of wins
Finishes
2/633% of wins
Makhachkala, Dagestan
From
Vienna
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
Magomed Ankalaev19 sig landed
HEAD37%7 of 19BODY42%8 of 11LEGS21%4 of 4
Aleksandar Rakic22 sig landed
HEAD18%4 of 24BODY14%3 of 4LEGS68%15 of 17
19 of 34
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ankalaev firstSal D'Amato9–10Jacob Montalvo9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Magomed Ankalaev23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 33BODY30%7 of 9LEGS35%8 of 8
Aleksandar Rakic19 sig landed
HEAD16%3 of 24BODY16%3 of 5LEGS68%13 of 14
23 of 50
Sig.
strikes
19 of 43
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:06
Distance 23Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ankalaev firstSal D'Amato10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9Tony Weeks10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Magomed Ankalaev13 sig landed
HEAD38%5 of 20BODY54%7 of 9LEGS8%1 of 1
Aleksandar Rakic12 sig landed
HEAD25%3 of 17BODY25%3 of 3LEGS50%6 of 9
13 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:18
Control
0:54
Distance 8Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ankalaev firstSal D'Amato10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Vitor Ribeiro
Magomed AnkalaevAleksandar Rakic
Official totals — Magomed Ankalaev first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 15 scored, Magomed Ankalaev first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Scott Fontana New York Post30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Stephie Haynes30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ankalaev · 50%30-27 Ankalaev · 30%29-28 Rakic · 16%30-27 Rakic · 2%

251 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.

Magomed Ankalaev

0.79takedowns / 15 min
0.79 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.64 / 15m
3.59 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.05 / 15m
22%
ACCURACY
21%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Aleksandar Rakic

0.64takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Magomed Ankalaev vs Aleksandar Rakic.

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