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Events · UFC Fight Night: Basharat vs Vazquez · Nikolay Veretennikov vs Niko Price
Red corner NikolayVeretennikovKings MMA · Astana
VSSettled
Blue corner NikoPrice“The Hybrid”Futures MMA · Cape Coral, Florida
Welterweight Bout3 rounds7 Feb 2026
The story going in
  • Is 13 points more accurate striking than Price.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
14-8
Record
16-11
36
Age
36
+1″6' 1"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+1519
0/10% of wins
Finishes
6/875% of wins
Kings MMA
Gym
Futures MMA
Astana
From
Cape Coral, Florida
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
Nikolay Veretennikov
58.1% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 54%
Vs the market−12.1pp
Market had our pick at70%
The fight
Nikolay Veretennikov
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:42
Called it We called Nikolay Veretennikov at 58.1% and Nikolay Veretennikov 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 — and the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them.

UFCStats · per round

1 round of tape

Round 11:42 of actionEnded 1:42
Nikolay Veretennikov19 sig landed
HEAD63%12 of 22BODY32%6 of 7LEGS5%1 of 1
Niko Price9 sig landed
HEAD78%7 of 19BODY11%1 of 1LEGS11%1 of 3
19 of 30
Sig.
strikes
9 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:17
Control
0:00
Distance 10Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 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

Nikolay Veretennikov

Round
1
Clock
1:42
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: Chris Tognoni.

Still to come on this page

Named rather than hidden. It is built from data already on disk and lands in the next pass of this build-out.

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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