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Events · UFC: Kim vs Fan · Jacob Malkoun vs Torrez Finney
Red corner JacobMalkoun“Mamba”PMA Super Martial Arts · Sydney, New South Wales
VSSettled
Blue corner TorrezFinney“The Punisher”Agoge Combatives · Chattanooga, Tennessee
Middleweight Bout3 rounds31 Jan 2026
The story going in
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Finney.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Malkoun.
  • Lands 2.5 more significant strikes a minute than Finney.
10-3
Record
11-1
30
Age
−3 yr27
+1″5' 9"
Height
5' 8"
73″
Reach
+2″75″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+67
UFC bouts
1
1/425% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
PMA Super Martial Arts
Gym
Agoge Combatives
Sydney, New South Wales
From
Chattanooga, Tennessee
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
Jacob Malkoun
50.4% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 59%
Vs the market−8.8pp
Market had our pick at59%
The fight
Jacob Malkoun
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Jacob Malkoun at 50.4% and Jacob Malkoun won. The method call landed too.
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 action1 sub attempt
Jacob Malkoun61 sig landed
HEAD97%59 of 96BODY3%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Torrez Finney7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 24BODY14%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
61 of 98
Sig.
strikes
7 of 26
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
0:20
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 55Clinch 1Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action⚡ 1 KD Malkoun2 sub attempts
Jacob Malkoun37 sig landed
HEAD100%37 of 53BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Torrez Finney8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 20BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
37 of 53
Sig.
strikes
8 of 21
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:29
Control
0:00
1
Knock-
downs
0
2
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 24Clinch 2Ground 11
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jacob Malkoun19 sig landed
HEAD100%19 of 30BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Torrez Finney12 sig landed
HEAD92%11 of 29BODY8%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
12 of 30
2 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:27
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 18Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 11Clinch 1Ground 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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Steve Perceval
Jacob MalkounTorrez Finney
Official card — Jacob Malkoun first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide10–910–810–930–26
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide10–910–910–930–27
Charlie Keech2.0 avg spread · 43% wide10–810–910–930–26

Media cards — 10 scored, Jacob Malkoun first · unofficial

Keith Shillan Sherdog.com30–25
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com30–26
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection30–26
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com30–27
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com30–27
Combat Press.com30–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27

Fan vote · unofficial

30-26 Malkoun · 42%30-25 Malkoun · 40%30-27 Malkoun · 18%

50 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.

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The market story coming in this build-out

What the price did in the week before the cage door shut, with the moment our pick was frozen marked on it. Where we captured no price history for a bout, this panel will say so rather than draw a line that was never there.

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