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Events · Ankalaev vs Guskov · Ramazan Temirov vs Steve Erceg
Red corner RamazanTemirov“Temurlan”
VSSettled
Blue corner SteveErcegWilkes Martial Arts · Myaree, Western Australia
Flyweight3 rounds25 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 2-fight win streak.
  • Carries 33 points more takedown defence than Erceg.
  • 8 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Temirov.
20-3
Record
14-5
−1 yr29
Age
30
5' 4"
Height
+4″5' 8"
63″
Reach
+5″68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
2
UFC bouts
+68
1/250% of wins
Finishes
1/520% of wins
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
Steve Erceg
51.0% confidentTOSS-UP
Method calledDEC 62%
Vs the market+2.4pp
Market had our pick at49%
The fight
Ramazan Temirov
LOSS
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock4:21
Missed We called Steve Erceg at 51.0%Ramazan Temirov won. The method call missed as well.
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

1 round of tape

Round 14:21 of action⚡ 2 KD TemirovEnded 4:21
Ramazan Temirov27 sig landed
HEAD93%25 of 56BODY4%1 of 4LEGS4%1 of 1
Steve Erceg11 sig landed
HEAD82%9 of 37BODY18%2 of 5LEGS0%0 landed
27 of 61
Sig.
strikes
11 of 42
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:06
Control
0:08
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 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

Ramazan Temirov

Round
1
Clock
4:21
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: Mike Beltran.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Ramazan Temirov

0.84takedowns / 15 min
0.84 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.13 / 15m
1.68 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.04 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
28%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.40 / 15m

Steve Erceg

1.13takedowns / 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 (5.00 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Flyweight

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.

Ramazan TemirovSteve ErcegPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Ramazan Temirov vs Steve Erceg — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Ramazan Temirov and Steve Erceg from Jul 17 to Jul 25, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Ramazan Temirov moves from 43% to 52% and Steve Erceg from 57% to 48%. 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 passed here (toss-up)52%48%

Steve Erceg's implied chance drifted down from 57% to 48% (−8.5pp) 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 Steve Erceg at 51.0%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had him at 48.5% — our number sat 2.5pp 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 captureMove
Ramazan Temirov — sportsbook consensus46.6%44.6%52.5%50.5%+3.9pp
Steve Erceg — sportsbook consensus53.4%47.5%55.4%49.5%−3.9pp
Ramazan Temirov — Polymarket43.0%18.0%51.5%51.5%+8.5pp
Steve Erceg — Polymarket57.0%48.5%82.0%48.5%−8.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,275 snapshots on file · window Jul 17 15:12Jul 25 14:18Z · last capture Jul 25, 14:18Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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