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Events · UFC Fight Night: Acosta vs Lewis · Ateba Gautier vs Andrey Pulyaev
Red corner AtebaGautier“The Silent Assassin”
VSSettled
Blue corner AndreyPulyaevStorm Shlemenko Fight Team · Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast
Middleweight Bout3 rounds24 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Gautier.
  • Every one of Gautier’s 3 UFC wins came inside the distance.
11-1
Record
10-5
−5 yr23
Age
28
6' 4"
Height
6' 4"
+3″81″
Reach
78″
Switch
Stance
Southpaw
+13
UFC bouts
2
3/3100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
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.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Ateba Gautier
79.6% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 63%
Vs the market−6.7pp
Market had our pick at86%
The fight
Ateba Gautier
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Ateba Gautier at 79.6% and Ateba Gautier won. The method call missed.
Graded against the official UFC result, from the same record every other page on this site is graded from. The tick beside the verdict is the method call — a correct winner with a wrong method is a partial hit and reads as one. See the full public record →

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 Gautier
Ateba Gautier8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 39BODY0%0 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Andrey Pulyaev19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 26BODY37%7 of 10LEGS0%0 of 1
8 of 42
Sig.
strikes
19 of 37
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gautier firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Gautier
Ateba Gautier15 sig landed
HEAD60%9 of 35BODY33%5 of 5LEGS7%1 of 1
Andrey Pulyaev24 sig landed
HEAD62%15 of 33BODY21%5 of 9LEGS17%4 of 4
15 of 41
Sig.
strikes
24 of 46
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 12Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gautier firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee10–9David Lethaby10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Ateba Gautier11 sig landed
HEAD64%7 of 24BODY36%4 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
Andrey Pulyaev16 sig landed
HEAD44%7 of 24BODY44%7 of 13LEGS12%2 of 3
11 of 29
Sig.
strikes
16 of 40
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Gautier firstJunichiro Kamijo10–9Chris Lee9–10David Lethaby9–10

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 · Mark Smith
Ateba GautierAndrey Pulyaev
Official totals — Ateba Gautier first
JudgeTotal
Junichiro Kamijo2.0 avg spread · 43% wide30–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–28
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% 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 — 14 scored, Ateba Gautier first · unofficial

Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–27
Sheehan SevereMMA.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Jake Noecker Home of Fight30–27
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Chris Connor The Fight City29–28
Drake Riggs Uncrowned29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Daniel Yanofsky The Sporting News29–28
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–28
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com28–29
Devin Tejada Sherdog.com28–29
Scottie Smith Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Gautier · 51%29-28 Pulyaev · 31%30-27 Gautier · 11%30-26 Gautier · 2%30-27 Pulyaev · 1%

175 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.

Ateba Gautier

0.41takedowns / 15 min
0.41 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.29 / 15m
0.41 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.81 / 15m
100%
ACCURACY
16%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Andrey Pulyaev

0.29takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

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.

Ateba Gautier→ no move
open 86.3%close 86.4%
Andrey Pulyaev→ no move
open 13.7%close 13.6%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

The line barely moved. Ateba Gautier opened at 86.3% and closed at 86.4% once the vig is taken out — a 0.1pp shift across the whole build-up. 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.

Our published call had Ateba Gautier at 79.6%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 86.4% — our number sat 6.8pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Ateba Gautier-900-96486.3%86.4%+0.1pp
Andrey Pulyaev60060313.7%13.6%−0.1pp
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% · dated 2026-01-25 on the odds record (1d from the card date; the nearest day inside a two-day window is used, never a guess) · 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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