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History · 2025 · UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. De Ridder · Bryce Mitchell vs Said Nurmagomedov
From the tape · 26 Jul 2025

Bryce Mitchell vs Said Nurmagomedov

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

Bryce Mitchell beat Said Nurmagomedov

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain cardReferee · Jim Perdios

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 BryceMitchell“Thug Nasty”Barata MMA · Sherwood, Arkansas
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SaidNurmagomedovFight Club Akhmat · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Bantamweight3 rounds26 Jul 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Averages 2.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Nurmagomedov.
  • Carries 30 points more takedown defence than Mitchell.
19-4
Record
18-5
−3 yr30
Age
33
+2″5' 10"
Height
5' 8"
70″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+111
UFC bouts
10
2/825% of wins
Finishes
+46%5/771% of wins
Barata MMA
Gym
Fight Club Akhmat
Sherwood, Arkansas
From
Makhachkala, Dagestan
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 Nurmagomedov
Bryce Mitchell10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 3BODY50%5 of 8LEGS30%3 of 3
Said Nurmagomedov17 sig landed
HEAD65%11 of 19BODY24%4 of 4LEGS12%2 of 2
10 of 14
Sig.
strikes
17 of 25
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:37
Control
1:46
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 5
Judges · this round · Mitchell firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Bryce Mitchell3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 2BODY67%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Said Nurmagomedov1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 3BODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 of 1
3 of 5
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
3 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:56
Control
0:50
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Mitchell firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Bryce Mitchell0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Said Nurmagomedov2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
2 of 2
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:11
Control
0:37
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Mitchell firstBen Cartlidge10–9David Lethaby10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9

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 · Jim Perdios
Bryce MitchellSaid Nurmagomedov
Official totals — Bryce Mitchell first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 42% 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 — 12 scored, Bryce Mitchell first · unofficial

Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Combat Press.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection29–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Christian Laporte Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Mitchell · 85%29-28 Nurmagomedov · 6%29-27 Nurmagomedov · 2%30-27 Nurmagomedov · 2%30-27 Mitchell · 1%

81 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.

Bryce Mitchell

3.24takedowns / 15 min
3.24 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.86 / 15m
9.00 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.73 / 15m
36%
ACCURACY
15%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.10 / 15m

Said Nurmagomedov

0.86takedowns / 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 (5.45 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Bantamweight

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.

Bryce Mitchell↑ +1.1pp
open 55.5%close 56.6%
Said Nurmagomedov↓ −1.1pp
open 44.5%close 43.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Bryce Mitchell opened at 55.5% and closed at 56.6% (+1.1pp), with Said Nurmagomedov 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
Bryce Mitchell-143-14655.5%56.6%+1.1pp
Said Nurmagomedov11212044.5%43.4%−1.1pp
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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