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Events · McGregor vs Holloway 2 · Nikita Krylov vs Robert Whittaker
Red corner NikitaKrylov“The Miner”Raty Team · Donetsk
VSSettled
Blue corner RobertWhittaker“The Reaper”PMA Super Martial Arts · Sydney, New South Wales
Light Heavyweight3 rounds11 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Has finished 10 of 12 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Whittaker.
  • Has finished 6 of 17 UFC wins.
31-12
Record
28-9
−1 yr34
Age
35
+3″6' 3"
Height
6' 0"
+4″77″
Reach
73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
21
UFC bouts
+324
+48%10/1283% of wins
Finishes
6/1735% of wins
Raty Team
Gym
PMA Super Martial Arts
Donetsk
From
Sydney, New South Wales
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
Robert Whittaker
53.6% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 43%
Vs the market+3.6pp
Market had our pick at50%
The fight
Robert Whittaker
WIN
How it endedKO/TKO
Round3 of 3
Clock1:01
Called it We called Robert Whittaker at 53.6% and Robert Whittaker 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Nikita Krylov20 sig landed
HEAD50%10 of 28BODY35%7 of 8LEGS15%3 of 4
Robert Whittaker20 sig landed
HEAD100%20 of 38BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
20 of 40
Sig.
strikes
20 of 38
3 of 5
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:10
Control
0:00
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 3Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Nikita Krylov28 sig landed
HEAD36%10 of 31BODY29%8 of 11LEGS36%10 of 10
Robert Whittaker29 sig landed
HEAD100%29 of 61BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
28 of 52
Sig.
strikes
29 of 61
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 25Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 31:01 of actionEnded 1:01
Nikita Krylov3 sig landed
HEAD33%1 of 3BODY67%2 of 4LEGS0%0 landed
Robert Whittaker5 sig landed
HEAD100%5 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
3 of 7
Sig.
strikes
5 of 12
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Robert Whittaker

Round
3
Clock
1:01
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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Nikita Krylov

2.05takedowns / 15 min
2.05 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.73 / 15m
5.54 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
1.92 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
38%
1.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Robert Whittaker

0.73takedowns / 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

What the market did on the way to the cage — the price, not our model. The gold marker is where our pick was frozen.

Nikita KrylovRobert WhittakerPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Nikita Krylov vs Robert Whittaker — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Nikita Krylov and Robert Whittaker from Jul 07 to Jul 11, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Nikita Krylov moves from 44% to 48% and Robert Whittaker from 56% to 52%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.5%15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%95%Jul 7Jul 8Jul 9Jul 10Jul 11▲ we passed here (toss-up)48%52%

Robert Whittaker's implied chance drifted down from 56% to 52% (−4.0pp) over this window. Our pick was frozen at the model cutoff, before this window opened — so the gold marker sits at the first snapshot we hold, not at a price we were reacting to.

Our published call had Robert Whittaker at 53.6%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 52.5% — our number sat 1.1pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Nikita Krylov — sportsbook consensus42.5%42.5%46.6%46.2%+3.7pp
Robert Whittaker — sportsbook consensus57.5%53.4%57.5%53.8%−3.7pp
Nikita Krylov — Polymarket43.5%9.2%47.5%47.5%+4.0pp
Robert Whittaker — Polymarket56.5%52.5%90.8%52.5%−4.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,108 snapshots on file · window Jul 07 18:09Jul 11 23:57Z · last capture Jul 11, 23:57Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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