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Events · UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · Hamdy Abdelwahab vs Jamal Pogues
From the tape · 1 Feb 2025

Hamdy Abdelwahab vs Jamal Pogues

UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov · Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Result

Hamdy Abdelwahab beat Jamal Pogues

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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 HamdyAbdelwahab“The Hammer”Killer B Combat Sports Academy · Queens, New York
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JamalPoguesSyndicate MMA · Victorville, California
Heavyweight3 rounds1 Feb 2025
7-1
Record
11-5
32
Age
−3 yr29
6' 2"
Height
+1″6' 3"
72″
Reach
+5″77″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+23
Killer B Combat Sports Academy
Gym
Syndicate MMA
Queens, New York
From
Victorville, California
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
Hamdy Abdelwahab11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 19BODY0%0 landedLEGS27%3 of 4
Jamal Pogues22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS36%8 of 10
11 of 23
Sig.
strikes
22 of 40
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:57
Control
0:00
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abdelwahab firstBen Cartlidge9–10Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Hamdy Abdelwahab12 sig landed
HEAD50%6 of 18BODY0%0 landedLEGS50%6 of 7
Jamal Pogues22 sig landed
HEAD55%12 of 33BODY0%0 landedLEGS45%10 of 11
12 of 25
Sig.
strikes
22 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abdelwahab firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Hamdy Abdelwahab21 sig landed
HEAD52%11 of 28BODY14%3 of 4LEGS33%7 of 7
Jamal Pogues25 sig landed
HEAD68%17 of 31BODY0%0 landedLEGS32%8 of 8
21 of 39
Sig.
strikes
25 of 39
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Abdelwahab firstBen Cartlidge10–9Sal D'Amato9–10Tony Weeks9–10

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 · Chris Tognoni
Hamdy AbdelwahabJamal Pogues
Official totals — Hamdy Abdelwahab first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–28
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% wide27–30

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 — 13 scored, Hamdy Abdelwahab first · unofficial

Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
MM AJunkie.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Pogues · 54%30-27 Pogues · 23%29-28 Abdelwahab · 20%30-27 Abdelwahab · 2%30-28 Pogues · 1%

128 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.

Hamdy Abdelwahab

3.25takedowns / 15 min
3.25 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
5.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.35 / 15m
65%
ACCURACY
46%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Jamal Pogues

2.00takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Hamdy Abdelwahab↑ +8.8pp
open 45.7%close 54.5%
Jamal Pogues↓ −8.8pp
open 54.3%close 45.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Hamdy Abdelwahab opened at 45.7% and closed at 54.5% (+8.8pp), with Jamal Pogues 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
Hamdy Abdelwahab105-13445.7%54.5%+8.8pp
Jamal Pogues-13810954.3%45.5%−8.8pp
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% · 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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