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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. · Muhammad Naimov vs Bogdan Grad
From the tape · 21 Jun 2025

Muhammad Naimov vs Bogdan Grad

UFC Fight Night: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. · Baku, Azerbaijan
Result

Muhammad Naimov beat Bogdan Grad

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 MuhammadNaimov“Hillman”Elevation Fight Team · Dushanbe
VSOn the tape
Blue corner BogdanGrad“The Unleashed”ETTL Bros. MMA · Graz
Featherweight3 rounds21 Jun 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.7 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Naimov.
  • 5 UFC bouts deep — 4 more than Grad.
13-4
Record
16-4
30
Age
−1 yr29
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+45
UFC bouts
1
2/450% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Elevation Fight Team
Gym
ETTL Bros. MMA
Dushanbe
From
Graz
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
Muhammad Naimov10 sig landed
HEAD60%6 of 17BODY10%1 of 1LEGS30%3 of 4
Bogdan Grad15 sig landed
HEAD20%3 of 12BODY40%6 of 9LEGS40%6 of 9
10 of 22
Sig.
strikes
15 of 30
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:23
Control
2:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 10Ground 0
Judges · this round · Naimov firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Darryl Ransom10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Muhammad Naimov6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 17BODY33%2 of 2LEGS17%1 of 2
Bogdan Grad10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 11BODY40%4 of 6LEGS30%3 of 4
6 of 21
Sig.
strikes
10 of 21
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 4
0:00
Control
2:01
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Naimov firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Darryl Ransom9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Muhammad Naimov2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 11BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Bogdan Grad6 sig landed
HEAD17%1 of 7BODY67%4 of 4LEGS17%1 of 2
2 of 11
Sig.
strikes
6 of 13
1 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 3
2:30
Control
1:04
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 3Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Naimov firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Darryl Ransom10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Muhammad NaimovBogdan Grad
Official totals — Muhammad Naimov first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% 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 — 8 scored, Muhammad Naimov first · unofficial

Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com29–28
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Naimov · 52%29-28 Grad · 23%30-27 Grad · 19%30-27 Naimov · 4%

48 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.

Muhammad Naimov

1.49takedowns / 15 min
1.49 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.22 / 15m
4.97 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.55 / 15m
30%
ACCURACY
40%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Bogdan Grad

4.22takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Muhammad Naimov↑ +3.2pp
open 65.8%close 69.0%
Bogdan Grad↓ −3.2pp
open 34.2%close 31.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Muhammad Naimov opened at 65.8% and closed at 69.0% (+3.2pp), with Bogdan Grad 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
Muhammad Naimov-220-26365.8%69.0%+3.2pp
Bogdan Grad18020734.2%31.0%−3.2pp
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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