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Events · UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · Paulo Costa vs Roman Kopylov
From the tape · 19 Jul 2025

Paulo Costa vs Roman Kopylov

UFC 318: Holloway vs. Poirier 3 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Result

Paulo Costa beat Roman Kopylov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightCo-MainReferee · Herb Dean

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 PauloCosta“The Eraser”Team Borracha · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
VSOn the tape
Blue corner RomanKopylovRaty Team · Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
Middleweight3 rounds19 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
16-4
Record
15-5
34
Age
−1 yr33
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
72″
Reach
+3″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+110
UFC bouts
9
4/667% of wins
Finishes
+17%5/683% of wins
Team Borracha
Gym
Raty Team
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
From
Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
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⚡ 1 KD Costa
Paulo Costa34 sig landed
HEAD38%13 of 33BODY21%7 of 7LEGS41%14 of 14
Roman Kopylov11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 18BODY27%3 of 6LEGS27%3 of 3
34 of 54
Sig.
strikes
11 of 27
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Costa firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Paulo Costa32 sig landed
HEAD31%10 of 31BODY56%18 of 22LEGS12%4 of 4
Roman Kopylov16 sig landed
HEAD56%9 of 22BODY31%5 of 8LEGS12%2 of 2
32 of 57
Sig.
strikes
16 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 31Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Costa firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Paulo Costa33 sig landed
HEAD33%11 of 25BODY48%16 of 17LEGS18%6 of 6
Roman Kopylov21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 39BODY29%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
33 of 48
Sig.
strikes
21 of 45
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 31Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Costa firstDerek Cleary10–9Eric Colón10–9Chris Lee9–10

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 · Herb Dean
Paulo CostaRoman Kopylov
Official totals — Paulo Costa first
JudgeTotal
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% 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 — 13 scored, Paulo Costa first · unofficial

Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Simon Samano MMAJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com30–27
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Costa · 75%29-28 Costa · 13%30-26 Costa · 8%29-28 Kopylov · 2%30-25 Costa · 1%

126 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.

Paulo Costa

0.30takedowns / 15 min
0.30 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.12 / 15m
0.71 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.24 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Roman Kopylov

1.12takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. This bout is settled; the window below is closed.

We hold no market price for this bout — no captured price series, and no opening or closing line in the sportsbook record we fall back on. So there is nothing to show, and we would rather show nothing than draw a line that was never there.

Paulo Costa vs Roman Kopylov.

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