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Events · UFC Fight Night: Burns vs Malott · John Castaneda vs Mark Vologdin
Red corner JohnCastaneda“Sexi Mexi”The Academy · Mankato, Minnesota
VSSettled
Blue corner MarkVologdinAllstars Training Center · Petrozavodsk
Bantamweight3 rounds18 Apr 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Lands 2.0 more significant strikes a minute than Castaneda.
  • Has finished 2 of 4 UFC wins.
21-8-1
Record
12-5-2
34
Age
−8 yr26
+3″5' 6"
Height
5' 3"
+6″71″
Reach
65″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
The Academy
Gym
Allstars Training Center
Mankato, Minnesota
From
Petrozavodsk
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
Mark Vologdin
52.9% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 52%
Vs the market−0.8pp
Market had our pick at54%
The fight
Mark Vologdin
WIN
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Mark Vologdin at 52.9% and Mark Vologdin won. The method call landed too.
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
John Castaneda25 sig landed
HEAD32%8 of 22BODY16%4 of 7LEGS52%13 of 15
Mark Vologdin24 sig landed
HEAD42%10 of 30BODY25%6 of 9LEGS33%8 of 13
25 of 44
Sig.
strikes
24 of 52
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:32
Control
0:05
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
John Castaneda45 sig landed
HEAD53%24 of 59BODY7%3 of 8LEGS40%18 of 19
Mark Vologdin38 sig landed
HEAD61%23 of 53BODY34%13 of 14LEGS5%2 of 2
45 of 86
Sig.
strikes
38 of 69
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
0:11
Control
0:25
Distance 44Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 37Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
John Castaneda65 sig landed
HEAD72%47 of 100BODY18%12 of 16LEGS9%6 of 7
Mark Vologdin29 sig landed
HEAD69%20 of 82BODY24%7 of 11LEGS7%2 of 3
65 of 123
Sig.
strikes
29 of 96
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 3
0:32
Control
0:01
Distance 55Clinch 9Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 5Ground 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

Decision - Majority

Referee · Jason Herzog
Official totals — unassigned
JudgeTotal
Judge 127–29
Judge 228–28
Judge 328–28

Full round-by-round cards are pending a source refresh. The decisions corpus we read currently ends at 2026-05-16, so this bout has the judges’ totals but not their individual rounds yet. Nothing here is estimated to fill the gap — when the scrape is re-run, the grid appears.

The record does not say which fighter each of these totals belongs to, so the judges are shown unnamed and the scores unassigned. We would rather print less than attribute a card to the wrong man.

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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