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Events · UFC Fight Night: Turcios vs Montes · Rafael Tobias vs Diyar Nurgozhay
Red corner RafaelTobiasChute Boxe Monstro · Curitiba, Parana
VSSettled
Blue corner DiyarNurgozhayTobet Top Team · Astana
Light Heavyweight Bout3 rounds7 Mar 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Nurgozhay.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Carries 26 points more striking defence than Tobias.
14-3
Record
12-2
−6 yr22
Age
28
6' 2"
Height
6' 2"
74″
Reach
74″
Orthodox
Stance
Southpaw
Chute Boxe Monstro
Gym
Tobet Top Team
Curitiba, Parana
From
Astana
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
Rafael Tobias
70.4% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 40%
Vs the market+5.8pp
Market had our pick at65%
The fight
Diyar Nurgozhay
LOSS
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Rafael Tobias at 70.4%Diyar Nurgozhay won. The method call missed as well.
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
Rafael Tobias10 sig landed
HEAD50%5 of 29BODY30%3 of 5LEGS20%2 of 4
Diyar Nurgozhay36 sig landed
HEAD36%13 of 30BODY39%14 of 18LEGS25%9 of 9
10 of 38
Sig.
strikes
36 of 57
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:18
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 4Ground 1
Judges · this round · Tobias firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Tony Weeks9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Rafael Tobias16 sig landed
HEAD100%16 of 33BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Diyar Nurgozhay27 sig landed
HEAD52%14 of 32BODY33%9 of 10LEGS15%4 of 4
16 of 34
Sig.
strikes
27 of 46
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:44
Control
1:03
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 9
Where it
happened
Distance 19Clinch 1Ground 7
Judges · this round · Tobias firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby10–9Tony Weeks9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Rafael Tobias13 sig landed
HEAD62%8 of 24BODY31%4 of 4LEGS8%1 of 1
Diyar Nurgozhay31 sig landed
HEAD19%6 of 9BODY45%14 of 19LEGS35%11 of 12
13 of 29
Sig.
strikes
31 of 40
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:47
Control
0:07
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 31Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Tobias firstBen Cartlidge9–10David Lethaby9–10Tony Weeks10–9

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 · Herb Dean
Rafael TobiasDiyar Nurgozhay
Official totals — Rafael Tobias first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide28–29
Tony Weeks2.1 avg spread · 49% 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 — 11 scored, Rafael Tobias first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com27–30
Jake Noecker Home of Fight27–30
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–30
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com27–30
John Pollock POST Wrestling27–30
Zane Simon The MMA Vivisection28–29
Combat Press.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Nurgozhay · 50%29-28 Nurgozhay · 38%29-28 Tobias · 6%30-28 Nurgozhay · 3%

32 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.

Rafael Tobias

2.40takedowns / 15 min
2.40 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.37 / 15m
7.27 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.83 / 15m
33%
ACCURACY
75%
1.60 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Diyar Nurgozhay

1.37takedowns / 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.

Rafael Tobias↓ −11.2pp
open 72.4%close 61.2%
Diyar Nurgozhay↑ +11.2pp
open 27.6%close 38.8%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Rafael Tobias opened at 72.4% and closed at 61.2% (−11.2pp), with Diyar Nurgozhay 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 Rafael Tobias at 70.4%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 61.2% — our number sat 9.2pp 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
Rafael Tobias-300-18072.4%61.2%−11.2pp
Diyar Nurgozhay25014527.6%38.8%+11.2pp
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% · scraped 2026-08-30. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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