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Events · UFC 327: Procházka vs Ulberg · Azamat Murzakanov vs Paulo Costa
Red corner AzamatMurzakanov“The Professional”K Dojo Warrior Tribe · Nalchik
VSSettled
Blue corner PauloCosta“The Eraser”Team Borracha · Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
Light Heavyweight3 rounds11 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 6-fight win streak.
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 5 of 6 UFC wins.
  • 11 UFC bouts deep — 5 more than Murzakanov.
16-1
Record
16-4
36
Age
−2 yr34
5' 10"
Height
+3″6' 1"
71″
Reach
+1″72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
6
UFC bouts
+511
+26%5/683% of wins
Finishes
4/757% of wins
K Dojo Warrior Tribe
Gym
Team Borracha
Nalchik
From
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
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
Azamat Murzakanov
58.8% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 49%
Vs the market−5.7pp
Market had our pick at64%
The fight
Paulo Costa
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round3 of 3
Clock1:23
Missed We called Azamat Murzakanov at 58.8%Paulo Costa 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
Azamat Murzakanov7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 23BODY14%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Paulo Costa21 sig landed
HEAD38%8 of 14BODY24%5 of 9LEGS38%8 of 8
7 of 26
Sig.
strikes
21 of 31
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:31
0
Knock-
downs
0
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 6Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 14Clinch 2Ground 5
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Azamat Murzakanov23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 30BODY30%7 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Paulo Costa19 sig landed
HEAD47%9 of 17BODY37%7 of 10LEGS16%3 of 4
23 of 38
Sig.
strikes
19 of 31
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:20
Control
0:49
0
Knock-
downs
0
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 20Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 4Ground 0
Round 31:23 of action⚡ 1 KD CostaEnded 1:23
Azamat Murzakanov4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Paulo Costa15 sig landed
HEAD67%10 of 13BODY27%4 of 4LEGS7%1 of 1
4 of 6
Sig.
strikes
15 of 18
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 15Clinch 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

Paulo Costa

Round
3
Clock
1:23
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: Keith Peterson.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

Career UFC takedown rates. Red corner left, blue corner right.

Azamat Murzakanov

0.68takedowns / 15 min
0.68 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.30 / 15m
3.40 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
0.71 / 15m
20%
ACCURACY
42%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Paulo Costa

0.30takedowns / 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 (5.32 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Azamat Murzakanov↑ +2.6pp
open 66.9%close 69.5%
Paulo Costa↓ −2.6pp
open 33.1%close 30.5%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Azamat Murzakanov opened at 66.9% and closed at 69.5% (+2.6pp), with Paulo Costa 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 Azamat Murzakanov at 58.8%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 69.5% — our number sat 10.7pp below 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
Azamat Murzakanov-230-26466.9%69.5%+2.6pp
Paulo Costa19021433.1%30.5%−2.6pp
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 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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