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Events · UFC Fight Night: Basharat vs Vazquez · Jailton Almeida vs Rizvan Kuniev
Red corner JailtonAlmeida“Malhadinho”Galpao da Luta · Salvador, Bahia
VSSettled
Blue corner RizvanKunievGorets Fight Club · Makhachkala, Dagestan
Heavyweight Bout3 rounds7 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Almeida.
  • 10 UFC bouts deep — 9 more than Kuniev.
22-5
Record
14-3-1
34
Age
−1 yr33
6' 3"
Height
+1″6' 4"
+3″79″
Reach
76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+910
UFC bouts
1
Galpao da Luta
Gym
Gorets Fight Club
Salvador, Bahia
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.

The call vs the fight

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

Our call
Jailton Almeida
62.5% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 42%
Vs the market+4.7pp
Market had our pick at58%
The fight
Rizvan Kuniev
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Jailton Almeida at 62.5%Rizvan Kuniev 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 — 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
Jailton Almeida5 sig landed
HEAD20%1 of 8BODY40%2 of 2LEGS40%2 of 2
Rizvan Kuniev12 sig landed
HEAD42%5 of 15BODY50%6 of 8LEGS8%1 of 1
5 of 12
Sig.
strikes
12 of 24
0 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:11
Control
2:11
Distance 3Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Jailton Almeida8 sig landed
HEAD50%4 of 14BODY50%4 of 7LEGS0%0 landed
Rizvan Kuniev15 sig landed
HEAD80%12 of 30BODY20%3 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
8 of 21
Sig.
strikes
15 of 35
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
2:20
Distance 7Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 6Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Jailton Almeida18 sig landed
HEAD67%12 of 28BODY33%6 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Rizvan Kuniev16 sig landed
HEAD88%14 of 32BODY12%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 34
Sig.
strikes
16 of 34
0 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:13
Control
2:04
Distance 13Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 7Ground 0
Judges · this round · Almeida firstMichael Bell9–10Sal D'Amato9–10Chris Lee10–9

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Jailton AlmeidaRizvan Kuniev
Official totals — Jailton Almeida first
JudgeTotal
Michael Bell27–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide28–29

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, Jailton Almeida first · unofficial

Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Danny Segura MMAJunkie.com27–30
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Erich Richter NY Post28–29
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Steve Duncan mma.uno28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Kuniev · 62%29-28 Almeida · 19%29-28 Kuniev · 10%30-27 Almeida · 4%

48 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.

Jailton Almeida

5.64takedowns / 15 min
5.64 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.98 / 15m
10.25 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.31 / 15m
55%
ACCURACY
75%
1.70 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Rizvan Kuniev

0.98takedowns / 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 (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in 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.

Jailton Almeida↓ −16.4pp
open 77.5%close 61.1%
Rizvan Kuniev↑ +16.4pp
open 22.5%close 38.9%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Jailton Almeida opened at 77.5% and closed at 61.1% (−16.4pp), with Rizvan Kuniev 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 Jailton Almeida at 62.5%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 61.1% — our number sat 1.4pp above 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
Jailton Almeida-400-17577.5%61.1%−16.4pp
Rizvan Kuniev33014722.5%38.9%+16.4pp
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 2026-02-08 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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