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Events · UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs Prates · Shamil Gaziev vs Brando Pericic
Red corner ShamilGazievKHK MMA · Manama
VSSettled
Blue corner BrandoPericicCity Kickboxing · Adelaide, South Australia
Heavyweight3 rounds2 May 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 2 of 3 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Averages 1.1 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Pericic.
  • Lands 8.1 more significant strikes a minute than Gaziev.
15-3
Record
7-1
36
Age
−5 yr31
6' 4"
Height
+1″6' 5"
78″
Reach
+1″79″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
+35
UFC bouts
2
2/367% of wins
Finishes
2/2100% of wins
KHK MMA
Gym
City Kickboxing
Manama
From
Adelaide, South Australia
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
Brando Pericic
60.7% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 58%
Vs the market+4.8pp
Market had our pick at56%
The fight
Brando Pericic
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round2 of 3
Clock3:44
Called it We called Brando Pericic at 60.7% and Brando Pericic 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Shamil Gaziev25 sig landed
HEAD60%15 of 37BODY40%10 of 10LEGS0%0 landed
Brando Pericic42 sig landed
HEAD79%33 of 77BODY10%4 of 5LEGS12%5 of 5
25 of 47
Sig.
strikes
42 of 87
1 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:46
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 18Clinch 7Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 35Clinch 7Ground 0
Round 23:44 of action⚡ 1 KD PericicEnded 3:44
Shamil Gaziev16 sig landed
HEAD94%15 of 51BODY6%1 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Brando Pericic47 sig landed
HEAD62%29 of 57BODY21%10 of 11LEGS17%8 of 8
16 of 53
Sig.
strikes
47 of 76
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:50
Control
0:00
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 16Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 46Clinch 1Ground 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

Brando Pericic

Round
2
Clock
3:44
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: Daniel Movahedi.

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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