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Events · Ankalaev vs Guskov · Mike Davis vs Nurullo Aliev
Red corner MikeDavis
VSSettled
Blue corner NurulloAliev“Tajik Eagle”Dushanbe
Lightweight3 rounds25 Jul 2026
The register carries nothing we can compare on both sides for this bout, so no ladder is drawn.

The call vs the fight

What we published before the card, next to what happened in the cage.

Our call
Nurullo Aliev
68.0% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 65%
Vs the market+0.7pp
Market had our pick at67%
The fight
Nurullo Aliev
WIN
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Nurullo Aliev at 68.0% and Nurullo Aliev 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 — 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 action1 sub attempt
Mike Davis5 sig landed
HEAD80%4 of 4BODY20%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Nurullo Aliev2 sig landed
HEAD100%2 of 4BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
5 of 5
Sig.
strikes
2 of 4
0 of 0
Take-
downs
4 of 5
0:18
Control
4:29
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 4
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 2
Judges · this round · Davis firstDavid Lethaby9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Mike Davis10 sig landed
HEAD20%2 of 10BODY80%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Nurullo Aliev10 sig landed
HEAD100%10 of 24BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
10 of 18
Sig.
strikes
10 of 25
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 3
0:00
Control
4:09
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 5
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 6
Judges · this round · Davis firstDavid Lethaby9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Mike Davis7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 9BODY29%2 of 3LEGS29%2 of 2
Nurullo Aliev1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY100%1 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
7 of 14
Sig.
strikes
1 of 5
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:18
Control
3:47
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Davis firstDavid Lethaby9–10Darryl Ransom9–10Clemens Werner9–10

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 · Jim Perdios
Mike DavisNurullo Aliev
Official totals — Mike Davis first
JudgeTotal
David Lethaby2.1 avg spread · 44% wide27–30
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide27–30
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide27–30

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 — 8 scored, Mike Davis first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–30
CombatPress.com27–30
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Aliev · 58%29-28 Aliev · 35%29-28 Davis · 8%

26 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

Nurullo Aliev

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

2.12takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.12 landed per 15 minutes — −0.01 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS62
2.12 / 15m−0.01 vs field
ATTEMPTS56
4.93 / 15m−0.47 vs field
ACCURACY61
43%−1pp vs field
SUB ATT19
0.30 / 15m−1.00 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Mike DavisNurullo AlievPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Mike Davis vs Nurullo Aliev — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Mike Davis and Nurullo Aliev from Jul 17 to Jul 25, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Mike Davis moves from 46% to 84% and Nurullo Aliev from 54% to 16%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was frozen before the window opened, not at that price.10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%Jul 17Jul 19Jul 21Jul 23Jul 25▲ we flagged Nurullo Aliev (HIGH) here84%16%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Nurullo Aliev's implied chance moved down from 54% to 16% (−38.0pp). 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.

This series stops at Jul 25 13:18Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Nurullo Aliev at 68.0%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had him at 15.5% — our number sat 52.5pp 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 pre-fightMove
Mike Davis — sportsbook consensus41.4%31.6%43.0%32.7%−8.7pp
Nurullo Aliev — sportsbook consensus58.6%57.0%68.4%67.3%+8.7pp
Mike Davis — Polymarket46.5%31.5%84.5%84.5%+38.0pp
Nurullo Aliev — Polymarket53.5%15.5%68.5%15.5%−38.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,486 snapshots on file · window Jul 17 15:12Jul 25 13:12Z · last capture Jul 25, 13:12Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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