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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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

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
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
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

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 · Dan Miragliotta
Jailton AlmeidaRizvan Kuniev
Official card — Jailton Almeida first
JudgeR1R2R3Total
Michael Bell9–109–109–1027–30
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide9–109–109–1027–30
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide9–109–1010–928–29

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.

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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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