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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Nikolay Veretennikov vs Austin Vanderford
From the tape · 22 Feb 2025

Nikolay Veretennikov vs Austin Vanderford

UFC Fight Night: Cejudo vs. Song · Seattle, Washington, USA
Result

Austin Vanderford beat Nikolay Veretennikov

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:13
Catch WeightMain cardReferee · Kevin MacDonald

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 NikolayVeretennikovKings MMA · Astana
VSOn the tape
Blue corner AustinVanderfordGracie Barra Portland · Portland, Oregon
Catch Weight3 rounds22 Feb 2025
14-8
Record
13-3
35
Age
−1 yr34
+2″6' 1"
Height
5' 11"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Kings MMA
Gym
Gracie Barra Portland
Astana
From
Portland, Oregon
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Nikolay Veretennikov3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 8BODY67%2 of 4LEGS33%1 of 1
Austin Vanderford8 sig landed
HEAD88%7 of 10BODY0%0 landedLEGS12%1 of 1
3 of 13
Sig.
strikes
8 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
3:56
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 6
Round 24:13 of actionEnded 4:13
Nikolay Veretennikov2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 4BODY50%1 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
Austin Vanderford31 sig landed
HEAD97%30 of 40BODY3%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 6
Sig.
strikes
31 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:00
Control
3:25
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 30

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Austin Vanderford

Round
2
Clock
4:13
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Kevin MacDonald.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Nikolay Veretennikov

0.40takedowns / 15 min
0.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
3.08 / 15m
2.50 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
8.80 / 15m
16%
ACCURACY
35%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.20 / 15m

Austin Vanderford

3.08takedowns / 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.

Nikolay Veretennikov↓ −9.8pp
open 60.4%close 50.7%
Austin Vanderford↑ +9.8pp
open 39.6%close 49.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nikolay Veretennikov opened at 60.4% and closed at 50.7% (−9.8pp), with Austin Vanderford 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
Nikolay Veretennikov-175-11260.4%50.7%−9.8pp
Austin Vanderford140-10639.6%49.3%+9.8pp
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% · dated 2025-02-23 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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