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Events · UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Nicolas Dalby vs Saygid Izagakhmaev
From the tape · 22 Nov 2025

Nicolas Dalby vs Saygid Izagakhmaev

UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker · Doha, Qatar
Result

Nicolas Dalby beat Saygid Izagakhmaev

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
WelterweightMain cardReferee · Lukasz Bosacki

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.

ND
Red corner NicolasDalby“Danish Dynamite”Rumble Sports · Copenhagen
VSOn the tape
Blue corner SaygidIzagakhmaevAbdulmanap Nurmagomedov School · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Welterweight3 rounds22 Nov 2025
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 41 points more takedown defence than Dalby.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Izagakhmaev.
24-6-1
Record
22-4
41
Age
−10 yr31
5' 11"
Height
+1″6' 0"
74″
Reach
74″
Rumble Sports
Gym
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School
Copenhagen
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
Nicolas Dalby5 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 6BODY0%0 of 3LEGS100%5 of 6
Saygid Izagakhmaev7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 7BODY57%4 of 4LEGS0%0 of 1
5 of 15
Sig.
strikes
7 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 2
3:06
Control
0:53
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 4Ground 2
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Nicolas Dalby3 sig landed
HEAD67%2 of 6BODY33%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Saygid Izagakhmaev2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY100%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
0 of 1
Take-
downs
2 of 3
1:55
Control
2:47
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Nicolas Dalby18 sig landed
HEAD61%11 of 29BODY39%7 of 12LEGS0%0 landed
Saygid Izagakhmaev11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 15BODY27%3 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 41
Sig.
strikes
11 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 5
1:28
Control
1:38
Distance 8Clinch 10Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 4Ground 0
Judges · this round · Dalby firstBen Cartlidge10–9Vito Paolillo10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–9

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

Split Decision

Referee · Lukasz Bosacki
Nicolas DalbySaygid Izagakhmaev
Official totals — Nicolas Dalby first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Vito Paolillo2.1 avg spread · 48% wide28–29
Cezary Wojciechowski29–28

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 — 10 scored, Nicolas Dalby first · unofficial

Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Jake Noecker Home of Fight28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Dalby · 66%29-28 Izagakhmaev · 18%30-27 Dalby · 13%30-27 Izagakhmaev · 3%

76 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.

Nicolas Dalby

0.90takedowns / 15 min
0.90 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
4.00 / 15m
3.46 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
10.00 / 15m
26%
ACCURACY
40%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Saygid Izagakhmaev

4.00takedowns / 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 (4.97 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Welterweight

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.

Nicolas Dalby↑ +3.5pp
open 22.5%close 26.0%
Saygid Izagakhmaev↓ −3.5pp
open 77.5%close 74.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nicolas Dalby opened at 22.5% and closed at 26.0% (+3.5pp), with Saygid Izagakhmaev 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
Nicolas Dalby33026722.5%26.0%+3.5pp
Saygid Izagakhmaev-400-34277.5%74.0%−3.5pp
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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