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Magomed Ankalaev vs Khalil Rountree Jr.Fantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#1 at Light Heavyweight · #4 at Light Heavyweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
UFC 13-2 (2 draws/NC) · Pro 22-2-1
#1 at Light Heavyweight
VS
UFC 10-7 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 15-7
#4 at Light Heavyweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Magomed Ankalaev 85% Khalil Rountree Jr. 15%

Run as an unbooked fight, the numbers favour Magomed Ankalaev at 85% — the widest kind of gap these reads produce.

Our two reads agree, and closely. Both land on Magomed Ankalaev — 85% on the first, 75% on the second, 10 points apart.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 42%.

KO/TKO
48%
Submission
9%
Decision
43%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Magomed Ankalaev vs Khalil Rountree Jr. — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 13-2 (2 draws/NC)UFC recordUFC 10-7 (1 draw/NC)
22-2-1Pro record15-7
6' 3"Height6' 1"
75"Reach76"
OrthodoxStanceSouthpaw
34Age36
205 lbs.Weight205 lbs.
RussiaNationality
Makhachkala, DagestanHometown
Gorets Fight ClubFighting out of
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Magomed Ankalaev (left) vs Khalil Rountree Jr. (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
3.52
vs
3.88
Striking accuracy
52%
vs
40%
Strikes absorbed / min
2.49
vs
4.33
Striking defence
55%
vs
49%
Takedowns / 15 min
0.85
vs
0
Takedown accuracy
24%
vs
0%
Takedown defence
87%
vs
58%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.2
vs
0.1
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Magomed Ankalaev and Khalil Rountree Jr. have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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