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Events · UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano · Rinya Nakamura vs Muin Gafurov
From the tape · 18 Jan 2025

Rinya Nakamura vs Muin Gafurov

UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano · Inglewood, California, USA
Result

Muin Gafurov beat Rinya Nakamura

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 RinyaNakamura“Hybred”American Top Team · Saitama
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MuinGafurov“Tajik”Dushanbe
Bantamweight3 rounds18 Jan 2025
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Gafurov.
10-1
Record
20-7
29
Age
−1 yr28
5' 7"
Height
5' 7"
68″
Reach
68″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
3
UFC bouts
3
1/333% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Saitama
From
Dushanbe
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
Rinya Nakamura10 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 8BODY30%3 of 4LEGS70%7 of 12
Muin Gafurov12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 21BODY25%3 of 4LEGS25%3 of 4
10 of 24
Sig.
strikes
12 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:35
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Leben9–10Felicia Oh9–10
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Gafurov
Rinya Nakamura9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 18BODY11%1 of 1LEGS33%3 of 5
Muin Gafurov14 sig landed
HEAD71%10 of 25BODY14%2 of 3LEGS14%2 of 4
9 of 24
Sig.
strikes
14 of 32
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:02
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Leben9–10Felicia Oh9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rinya Nakamura12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 18BODY33%4 of 4LEGS25%3 of 3
Muin Gafurov11 sig landed
HEAD36%4 of 19BODY36%4 of 5LEGS27%3 of 5
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
11 of 29
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:41
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nakamura firstDerek Cleary9–10Chris Leben9–10Felicia Oh9–10

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 · Jason Herzog
Rinya NakamuraMuin Gafurov
Official totals — Rinya Nakamura first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–30
Chris Leben27–30
Felicia Oh27–30

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, Rinya Nakamura first · unofficial

Drake Riggs Uncrowned26–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection27–30
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com28–29
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Gafurov · 73%29-28 Gafurov · 15%30-25 Gafurov · 5%30-26 Gafurov · 5%29-28 Nakamura · 2%

41 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.

Rinya Nakamura

2.58takedowns / 15 min
2.58 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.57 / 15m
3.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.61 / 15m
81%
ACCURACY
28%
1.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Muin Gafurov

1.57takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Rinya Nakamura↑ +9.5pp
open 74.4%close 84.0%
Muin Gafurov↓ −9.5pp
open 25.6%close 16.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rinya Nakamura opened at 74.4% and closed at 84.0% (+9.5pp), with Muin Gafurov 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
Rinya Nakamura-345-71874.4%84.0%+9.5pp
Muin Gafurov27549625.6%16.0%−9.5pp
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 2025-01-19 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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