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Events · Medic vs Rodriguez · Bogdan Grad vs Dennis Buzukja
Red corner BogdanGrad“The Unleashed”ETTL Bros. MMA · Graz
VSSettled
Blue corner DennisBuzukja“The Great”Longo-Weidman MMA · New York, New York
Featherweight3 rounds1 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 3.6 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Buzukja.
16-4
Record
12-7
30
Age
−2 yr28
5' 8"
Height
+1″5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Switch
3
UFC bouts
+25
1/1100% of wins
Finishes
1/1100% of wins
ETTL Bros. MMA
Gym
Longo-Weidman MMA
Graz
From
New York, New York
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
Bogdan Grad
58.3% confidentLOW
Method calledDEC 42%
Vs the market−6.1pp
Market had our pick at64%
The fight
Bogdan Grad
WIN
How it endedSUB
Round2 of 3
Clock4:33
Called it We called Bogdan Grad at 58.3% and Bogdan Grad 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

2 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action1 sub attempt
Bogdan Grad27 sig landed
HEAD81%22 of 33BODY7%2 of 4LEGS11%3 of 3
Dennis Buzukja22 sig landed
HEAD77%17 of 33BODY14%3 of 3LEGS9%2 of 3
27 of 40
Sig.
strikes
22 of 39
3 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
2:44
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 11Clinch 2Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 1Ground 0
Round 24:33 of action1 sub attemptEnded 4:33
Bogdan Grad17 sig landed
HEAD59%10 of 26BODY29%5 of 6LEGS12%2 of 2
Dennis Buzukja24 sig landed
HEAD75%18 of 42BODY25%6 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
17 of 34
Sig.
strikes
24 of 50
1 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
1:40
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 4Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 23Clinch 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

Bogdan Grad

Round
2
Clock
4:33
Method
SUB

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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Bogdan Grad

4.22takedowns / 15 min
4.22 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.62 / 15m
10.55 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.30 / 15m
40%
ACCURACY
27%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Dennis Buzukja

0.62takedowns / 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 (5.73 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Bogdan Gradclose only
no opening line on recordclose 64.6%
Dennis Buzukjaclose only
no opening line on recordclose 35.4%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

We hold the closing consensus for this bout but no opening line, so the strip marks the close alone: Bogdan Grad 64.6%, Dennis Buzukja 35.4%, vig removed.

Our published call had Bogdan Grad at 58.3%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had him at 64.6% — our number sat 6.3pp below the market’s. Two numbers, side by side. How our calls have actually done is the public record, not one bout.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Bogdan Grad-400-20964.6%
Dennis Buzukja17035.4%
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-08-30 · BestFightOdds has no fighter page scraped for Dennis Buzukia, so that corner’s CLOSE is read from the opponent’s row, which names it explicitly. No opening line exists for that corner and none is shown.. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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