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Losene Keita vs Muhammad Naimov

Red corner LoseneKeitaLamiro Fight Club · From Belgium
VSSettled
Blue corner MuhammadNaimov“Hillman”Elevation Fight Team · Born in Kulob, Tajikistan · Fights out of Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Featherweight3 rounds5 Sep 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 32 points more takedown defence than Naimov.
  • Has finished 2 of 5 UFC wins.
  • 7 UFC bouts deep — 6 more than Keita.
17-2
Record
13-5
−4 yr28
Age
32
5' 7"
Height
+2″5' 9"
+2″72″
Reach
70″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+67
Lamiro Fight Club
Gym
Elevation Fight Team
Belgium
From
Dushanbe, Tajikistanfights out of
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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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
Losene Keita
81.1% confidentHIGH
Method calledDEC 44%
Vs the market+5.2pp
Market had our pick at76%
The fight
Losene Keita
WIN✗
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock2:54
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Losene Keita at 81.1% and Losene Keita 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

1 round of tape

Round 12:54 of action⚡ 2 KD KeitaEnded 2:54
Losene Keita18 sig landed
HEAD89%16 of 27BODY11%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
Muhammad Naimov4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 21BODY50%2 of 3LEGS0%0 landed
18 of 30
Sig.
strikes
4 of 24
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:20
Control
0:00
2
Knock-
downs
0
Distance 10Clinch 0Ground 8
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 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

Losene Keita

Round
1
Clock
2:54
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: Jason Herzog.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Losene Keita

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.45 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
4.83 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
30%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Muhammad Naimov

1.45takedowns / 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 (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Losene KeitaMuhammad NaimovPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Losene Keita vs Muhammad Naimov — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Losene Keita and Muhammad Naimov from Aug 28 to Sep 05, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Losene Keita moves from 50% to 76% and Muhammad Naimov from 50% to 24%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%Aug 28Aug 30Sep 1Sep 3Sep 5▲ we flagged Losene Keita (HIGH) here76%24%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Losene Keita's implied chance moved up from 50% to 76% (+26.5pp).

This series stops at Sep 05 19:11Z — the last capture we hold from before the bout that ran ahead of this one on the card had finished — so it is provably from before this fight started. 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 Losene Keita at 81.1%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 76.5% — our number sat 4.6pp 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
Losene Keita — sportsbook consensus70.1%70.1%76.4%76.4%+6.2pp
Muhammad Naimov — sportsbook consensus29.9%23.6%29.9%23.6%−6.2pp
Losene Keita — Polymarket50.0%40.5%78.0%76.5%+26.5pp
Muhammad Naimov — Polymarket50.0%22.0%59.5%23.5%−26.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,918 snapshots on file · window Aug 28 17:39–Sep 05 19:01Z · last capture Sep 05, 19:01Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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