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Events · UFC Fight Night: Acosta vs Lewis · Nikita Krylov vs Modestas Bukauskas
Red corner NikitaKrylov“The Miner”Raty Team · Donetsk
VSSettled
Blue corner ModestasBukauskas“The Baltic Gladiator”Klaipeda
Light Heavyweight Bout3 rounds24 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 4-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 9 of 11 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
31-12
Record
20-7
33
Age
−2 yr31
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+1″77″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
+920
UFC bouts
11
+25%9/1182% of wins
Finishes
4/757% of wins
Donetsk
From
Klaipeda
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
Modestas Bukauskas
51.9% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledKO/TKO 41%
Vs the market−7.6pp
Market had our pick at59%
The fight
Nikita Krylov
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round3 of 3
Clock4:57
Missed We called Modestas Bukauskas at 51.9%Nikita Krylov won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nikita Krylov10 sig landed
HEAD30%3 of 17BODY10%1 of 5LEGS60%6 of 6
Modestas Bukauskas11 sig landed
HEAD100%11 of 21BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
10 of 28
Sig.
strikes
11 of 21
1 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:58
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Nikita Krylov23 sig landed
HEAD35%8 of 20BODY35%8 of 13LEGS30%7 of 7
Modestas Bukauskas11 sig landed
HEAD73%8 of 28BODY18%2 of 3LEGS9%1 of 1
23 of 40
Sig.
strikes
11 of 32
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:36
Control
0:56
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 19Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 34:57 of action⚡ 1 KD KrylovEnded 4:57
Nikita Krylov39 sig landed
HEAD36%14 of 39BODY33%13 of 16LEGS31%12 of 14
Modestas Bukauskas18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 52BODY0%0 of 1LEGS11%2 of 2
39 of 69
Sig.
strikes
18 of 55
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:03
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 35Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 0Ground 0

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.

How it ended

This bout never reached the judges. Here is the finish, as the official record has it.

Won inside the distance

Nikita Krylov

Round
3
Clock
4:57
Method
KO/TKO

This bout did not reach the judges, so there are no official cards for it. The round-by-round tape above is the whole record of what happened. Referee: Marc Goddard.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Nikita Krylov

2.05takedowns / 15 min
2.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.23 / 15m
5.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.35 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
66%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Modestas Bukauskas

0.23takedowns / 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 (5.96 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light 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.

Nikita Krylov↑ +9.3pp
open 35.7%close 45.0%
Modestas Bukauskas↓ −9.3pp
open 64.3%close 55.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Nikita Krylov opened at 35.7% and closed at 45.0% (+9.3pp), with Modestas Bukauskas 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.

Our published call had Modestas Bukauskas at 51.9%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 55.0% — our number sat 3.1pp 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
Nikita Krylov17011335.7%45.0%+9.3pp
Modestas Bukauskas-200-13564.3%55.0%−9.3pp
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% · 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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