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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Hill vs. Rountree Jr. · Nazim Sadykhov vs Nikolas Motta
From the tape · 21 Jun 2025

Nazim Sadykhov vs Nikolas Motta

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

Nazim Sadykhov beat Nikolas Motta

Method
KO/TKO
Round
2 of 3
Clock
4:17
LightweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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 NazimSadykhov“Black Wolf”Longo-Weidman MMA · Baku
VSOn the tape
NM
Blue corner NikolasMotta“Iron”Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
Lightweight3 rounds21 Jun 2025
The story going in
  • Every one of Sadykhov’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Motta.
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
11-3-1
Record
15-6
−1 yr31
Age
32
+1″5' 10"
Height
5' 9"
69″
Reach
+1″70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+26
+33%3/3100% of wins
Finishes
2/367% of wins
Baku
From
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais
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 action⚡ 1 KD Motta
Nazim Sadykhov39 sig landed
HEAD54%21 of 43BODY31%12 of 13LEGS15%6 of 7
Nikolas Motta36 sig landed
HEAD64%23 of 68BODY25%9 of 9LEGS11%4 of 5
39 of 63
Sig.
strikes
36 of 82
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:05
Control
0:06
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 25Clinch 14Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 28Clinch 8Ground 0
Round 24:17 of action⚡ 1 KD SadykhovEnded 4:17
Nazim Sadykhov54 sig landed
HEAD72%39 of 71BODY24%13 of 14LEGS4%2 of 2
Nikolas Motta30 sig landed
HEAD77%23 of 68BODY23%7 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
54 of 87
Sig.
strikes
30 of 75
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:24
Control
0:10
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 33Clinch 19Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 26Clinch 4Ground 0

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

Nazim Sadykhov

Round
2
Clock
4:17
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: Lukasz Bosacki.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Nazim Sadykhov

1.10takedowns / 15 min
1.10 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
2.44 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
45%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Nikolas Motta

0.00takedowns / 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 (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Nazim Sadykhov↑ +2.2pp
open 76.0%close 78.2%
Nikolas Motta↓ −2.2pp
open 24.0%close 21.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nazim Sadykhov opened at 76.0% and closed at 78.2% (+2.2pp), with Nikolas Motta 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
Nazim Sadykhov-380-44476.0%78.2%+2.2pp
Nikolas Motta30033924.0%21.8%−2.2pp
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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