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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales · Dustin Stoltzfus vs Nursulton Ruziboev
From the tape · 17 May 2025

Dustin Stoltzfus vs Nursulton Ruziboev

UFC Fight Night: Burns vs. Morales · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Nursulton Ruziboev beat Dustin Stoltzfus

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain 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 DustinStoltzfusFrankers Fight Team · Lancaster, Pennsylvania
VSOn the tape
Blue corner NursultonRuziboev“Black”Tashkent
Middleweight3 rounds17 May 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Every one of Ruziboev’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Ruziboev.
17-8
Record
37-9-2
33
Age
−2 yr31
6' 0"
Height
+5″6' 5"
75″
Reach
+1″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+48
UFC bouts
4
2/367% of wins
Finishes
+33%3/3100% of wins
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
From
Tashkent
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 action1 sub attempt
Dustin Stoltzfus5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 10BODY20%1 of 1LEGS40%2 of 2
Nursulton Ruziboev13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 19BODY15%2 of 4LEGS23%3 of 4
5 of 13
Sig.
strikes
13 of 27
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:14
Control
1:24
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 1
Judges · this round · Stoltzfus firstMichael Bell10–9Eric Colón10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Dustin Stoltzfus2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 2BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nursulton Ruziboev11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 17BODY18%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
2 of 3
Sig.
strikes
11 of 19
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:13
Control
1:55
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 9
Judges · this round · Stoltzfus firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Dustin Stoltzfus14 sig landed
HEAD14%2 of 7BODY14%2 of 4LEGS71%10 of 10
Nursulton Ruziboev11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 17BODY36%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
14 of 21
Sig.
strikes
11 of 22
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
1:44
Control
0:02
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Stoltzfus firstMichael Bell9–10Eric Colón9–10Tony 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

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Dustin StoltzfusNursulton Ruziboev
Official totals — Dustin Stoltzfus first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell28–29
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide28–29
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 — 11 scored, Dustin Stoltzfus first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29
Combat Press.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
MM AMania.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Ruziboev · 34%29-28 Stoltzfus · 34%30-27 Ruziboev · 27%30-27 Stoltzfus · 1%30-29 Stoltzfus · 1%

73 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.

Dustin Stoltzfus

2.08takedowns / 15 min
2.08 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.75 / 15m
5.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.14 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
66%
1.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nursulton Ruziboev

0.75takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Dustin Stoltzfus↑ +1.8pp
open 29.5%close 31.3%
Nursulton Ruziboev↓ −1.8pp
open 70.5%close 68.7%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Dustin Stoltzfus opened at 29.5% and closed at 31.3% (+1.8pp), with Nursulton Ruziboev 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
Dustin Stoltzfus22520629.5%31.3%+1.8pp
Nursulton Ruziboev-278-25270.5%68.7%−1.8pp
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 2026-08-09. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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