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Events · UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang · Sergei Pavlovich vs Waldo Cortes Acosta
From the tape · 23 Aug 2025

Sergei Pavlovich vs Waldo Cortes Acosta

UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang · Shanghai, Hebei, China
Result

Sergei Pavlovich beat Waldo Cortes Acosta

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain 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 SergeiPavlovichEagles MMA · Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast
VSOn the tape
Blue corner Waldo CortesAcosta“Salsa Boy”Ultimate Kombat Fitness · Fundacion, Barahona
Heavyweight3 rounds23 Aug 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 2 of 7 UFC wins.
21-3
Record
17-3
33
Age
33
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
+6″84″
Reach
78″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+210
UFC bouts
8
+57%6/786% of wins
Finishes
2/729% of wins
Eagles MMA
Gym
Ultimate Kombat Fitness
Rostov-on-Don, Rostov Oblast
From
Fundacion, Barahona
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
Sergei Pavlovich9 sig landed
HEAD67%6 of 24BODY11%1 of 1LEGS22%2 of 3
Waldo Cortes Acosta11 sig landed
HEAD45%5 of 20BODY9%1 of 4LEGS45%5 of 10
9 of 28
Sig.
strikes
11 of 34
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:06
Control
0:00
Distance 8Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pavlovich firstMark Christie9–10Evan Field10–9Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sergei Pavlovich22 sig landed
HEAD59%13 of 32BODY23%5 of 7LEGS18%4 of 4
Waldo Cortes Acosta20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 32BODY10%2 of 2LEGS15%3 of 3
22 of 43
Sig.
strikes
20 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pavlovich firstMark Christie10–9Evan Field10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sergei Pavlovich30 sig landed
HEAD53%16 of 48BODY20%6 of 6LEGS27%8 of 8
Waldo Cortes Acosta14 sig landed
HEAD50%7 of 36BODY7%1 of 4LEGS43%6 of 6
30 of 62
Sig.
strikes
14 of 46
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:02
Control
0:00
Distance 30Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Pavlovich firstMark Christie10–9Evan Field10–9Clemens 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 · Marc Goddard
Sergei PavlovichWaldo Cortes Acosta
Official totals — Sergei Pavlovich first
JudgeTotal
Mark Christie29–28
Evan Field2.2 avg spread · 48% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% 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 — 7 scored, Sergei Pavlovich first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Mathis Desjardins Cageside Press30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Sherdog.com30–27
Dan Levi Best Fight Picks30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Pavlovich · 78%29-28 Pavlovich · 17%29-28 Cortes-Acosta · 2%30-26 Pavlovich · 1%30-27 Cortes-Acosta · 1%

83 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.

Sergei Pavlovich

0.48takedowns / 15 min
0.48 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.40 / 15m
1.92 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.80 / 15m
25%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Waldo Cortes Acosta

0.40takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Sergei Pavlovich↑ +0.7pp
open 68.5%close 69.2%
Waldo Cortes Acosta↓ −0.7pp
open 31.5%close 30.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sergei Pavlovich opened at 68.5% and closed at 69.2% (+0.7pp), with Waldo Cortes Acosta 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
Sergei Pavlovich-265-26368.5%69.2%+0.7pp
Waldo Cortes Acosta20021031.5%30.8%−0.7pp
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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