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Events · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Asu Almabayev vs Jose Ochoa
From the tape · 26 Jul 2025

Asu Almabayev vs Jose Ochoa

UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Asu Almabayev beat Jose Ochoa

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FlyweightMain cardReferee · Jason Herzog

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 AsuAlmabayevAlmaty
VSOn the tape
Blue corner JoseOchoa“Kalzifer”Chute Boxe Diego Lima · Moyobamba, San Martin
Flyweight3 rounds26 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Averages 4.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ochoa.
  • Lands 2.9 more significant strikes a minute than Almabayev.
24-3
Record
9-2
31
Age
−7 yr24
5' 4"
Height
+3″5' 7"
65″
Reach
+2″67″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
+35
UFC bouts
2
1/425% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
Almaty
From
Moyobamba, San Martin
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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 action2 sub attempts
Asu Almabayev5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 6BODY20%1 of 3LEGS20%1 of 1
Jose Ochoa10 sig landed
HEAD10%1 of 6BODY50%5 of 6LEGS40%4 of 6
5 of 10
Sig.
strikes
10 of 18
3 of 6
Take-
downs
1 of 1
3:16
Control
0:43
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almabayev firstMark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Asu Almabayev11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 12BODY27%3 of 5LEGS27%3 of 3
Jose Ochoa5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 3BODY60%3 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
11 of 20
Sig.
strikes
5 of 9
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:47
Control
0:09
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 5Clinch 2Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almabayev firstMark Collett10–9David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Asu Almabayev6 sig landed
HEAD67%4 of 8BODY17%1 of 3LEGS17%1 of 1
Jose Ochoa11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 10BODY45%5 of 6LEGS9%1 of 2
6 of 12
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:23
Control
0:04
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almabayev firstMark Collett9–10David Lethaby10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Asu AlmabayevJose Ochoa
Official totals — Asu Almabayev first
JudgeTotal
Mark Collett2.0 avg spread · 47% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide30–27

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 — 10 scored, Asu Almabayev first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Almabayev · 66%29-28 Almabayev · 18%29-28 Ochoa · 12%30-27 Ochoa · 2%

50 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.

Asu Almabayev

4.46takedowns / 15 min
4.46 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
10.62 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.20 / 15m
42%
ACCURACY
25%
1.50 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.90 / 15m

Jose Ochoa

0.30takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Asu Almabayev vs Jose Ochoa.

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