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Events · Makhachev vs Machado Garry · Chidi Njokuani vs Joel Alvarez
Red corner ChidiNjokuani“Bang Bang”Las Vegas, Nevada
VSSettled
Blue corner JoelAlvarez“El Fenomeno”Bandog Fight Club · Gijon, Asturias
Welterweight3 rounds15 Aug 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 7 of 8 UFC wins.
  • Has finished 3 of 5 UFC wins.
26-12
Record
23-5
37
Age
−4 yr33
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+3″80″
Reach
77″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+111
3/560% of wins
Finishes
+28%7/888% of wins
Las Vegas, Nevada
From
Gijon, Asturias
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
Joel Alvarez
76.8% confidentHIGH
Method calledKO/TKO 49%
Vs the market+3.9pp
Market had our pick at73%
The fight
Chidi Njokuani
LOSS
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Missed We called Joel Alvarez at 76.8%Chidi Njokuani 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

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Chidi Njokuani46 sig landed
HEAD15%7 of 19BODY37%17 of 24LEGS48%22 of 26
Joel Alvarez22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 35BODY18%4 of 6LEGS41%9 of 9
46 of 69
Sig.
strikes
22 of 50
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 46Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 22Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 25:00 of action
Chidi Njokuani48 sig landed
HEAD40%19 of 31BODY29%14 of 23LEGS31%15 of 16
Joel Alvarez25 sig landed
HEAD72%18 of 41BODY8%2 of 5LEGS20%5 of 6
48 of 70
Sig.
strikes
25 of 52
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:00
Distance 48Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 0Ground 0
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Chidi Njokuani61 sig landed
HEAD41%25 of 50BODY41%25 of 29LEGS18%11 of 11
Joel Alvarez27 sig landed
HEAD37%10 of 44BODY48%13 of 14LEGS15%4 of 4
61 of 90
Sig.
strikes
27 of 62
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:12
Control
0:26
Distance 55Clinch 6Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 25Clinch 2Ground 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.

Judges’ scorecards

Every judge’s round, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score.

Official card

Decision - Unanimous

Referee · Keith Peterson
Official totals — Chidi Njokuani first
JudgeTotal
Brent Colflesh30–27
Eric Colon2.0 avg spread · 42% wide30–27
David Braslow29–28

Full round-by-round cards are pending a source refresh. The decisions corpus we read currently ends at 2026-05-16, so this bout has the judges’ totals but not their individual rounds yet. Nothing here is estimated to fill the gap — when the scrape is re-run, the grid appears.

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.

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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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