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History · 2025 · UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane · Umar Nurmagomedov vs Mario Bautista
From the tape · 25 Oct 2025

Umar Nurmagomedov vs Mario Bautista

UFC 321: Aspinall vs. Gane · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Umar Nurmagomedov beat Mario Bautista

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
BantamweightMain 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 UmarNurmagomedovEagles MMA · Kizilyurt, Dagestan
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarioBautistaMMA Lab · Phoenix, Arizona
Bantamweight3 rounds25 Oct 2025
The story going in
  • Has finished 3 of 6 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 8-fight win streak.
  • Averages 2.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Bautista.
  • Has finished 4 of 10 UFC wins.
20-2
Record
18-3
−3 yr29
Age
32
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
69″
Reach
69″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
7
UFC bouts
+512
+10%3/650% of wins
Finishes
4/1040% of wins
Eagles MMA
Gym
MMA Lab
Kizilyurt, Dagestan
From
Phoenix, Arizona
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 action1 sub attempt
Umar Nurmagomedov5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Mario Bautista1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY100%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
5 of 6
Sig.
strikes
1 of 1
2 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:37
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstBen Cartlidge10–9Chris Lee10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Bautista
Umar Nurmagomedov12 sig landed
HEAD83%10 of 18BODY17%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Mario Bautista9 sig landed
HEAD33%3 of 19BODY44%4 of 7LEGS22%2 of 2
12 of 21
Sig.
strikes
9 of 28
2 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 1
3:02
Control
0:04
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstBen Cartlidge10–9Chris Lee10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Umar Nurmagomedov15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 20BODY27%4 of 5LEGS13%2 of 2
Mario Bautista10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 18BODY60%6 of 6LEGS10%1 of 1
15 of 27
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
7 of 9
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:07
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 8Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Nurmagomedov firstBen Cartlidge10–9Chris Lee10–9Jacob Montalvo10–9

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
Umar NurmagomedovMario Bautista
Official totals — Umar Nurmagomedov first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide30–27
Jacob Montalvo2.0 avg spread · 47% 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 — 19 scored, Umar Nurmagomedov first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
MM AMania.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Drake Riggs Uncrowned30–27
Chris De Santiago BloodyElbow.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–27
MM A Latinoamerica30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News30–27
Nick Baldwin theScore30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Alexander K. Lee MMAFighting.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Nurmagomedov · 47%29-28 Nurmagomedov · 44%29-28 Bautista · 4%30-26 Nurmagomedov · 1%

191 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.

Umar Nurmagomedov

4.03takedowns / 15 min
4.03 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.91 / 15m
8.76 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
5.03 / 15m
46%
ACCURACY
38%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Mario Bautista

1.91takedowns / 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.

Umar Nurmagomedov↑ +6.3pp
open 76.4%close 82.8%
Mario Bautista↓ −6.3pp
open 23.6%close 17.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Umar Nurmagomedov opened at 76.4% and closed at 82.8% (+6.3pp), with Mario Bautista 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
Umar Nurmagomedov-430-62376.4%82.8%+6.3pp
Mario Bautista30045723.6%17.2%−6.3pp
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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