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Leon Shahbazyan vs Levan Chokheli

Red corner LeonShahbazyanGlendale Fighting Club · Hometown (per Sherdog): Glendale, California
VSSettled
Blue corner LevanChokheliPhoenix Sportakademie Kassel · Hometown (per Sherdog): Tbilisi
Welterweight3 rounds21 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Averages 1.4 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Chokheli.
  • Lands 9.6 more significant strikes a minute than Shahbazyan.
12-6
Record
15-3
30
Age
−1 yr29
+5″6' 4"
Height
5' 11"
+2″74″
Reach
72″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Glendale Fighting Club
Gym
Phoenix Sportakademie Kassel
Glendale, Californiahometown, per Sherdog
From
Tbilisihometown, per Sherdog
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
Levan Chokheli
64.7% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 40%
Vs the market−11.8pp
Market had our pick at76%
The fight
Levan Chokheli
WIN✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock0:23
Called it We called Levan Chokheli at 64.7% and Levan Chokheli won. The method call landed too.
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 10:23 of action⚡ 1 KD ChokheliEnded 0:23
Leon Shahbazyan0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 landedBODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Levan Chokheli6 sig landed
HEAD50%3 of 8BODY17%1 of 1LEGS33%2 of 2
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
6 of 11
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
0:01
0
Knock-
downs
1
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 6Clinch 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

Levan Chokheli

Round
1
Clock
0:23
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: Kerry Hatley.

Takedowns

Takedowns

Leon Shahbazyan

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

1.41takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.41 landed per 15 minutes — −0.69 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS46
1.41 / 15m−0.69 vs field
ATTEMPTS33
2.82 / 15m−2.24 vs field
ACCURACY72
50%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.33 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Welterweight

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 published.

Leon ShahbazyanLevan ChokheliPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Leon Shahbazyan vs Levan Chokheli — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Leon Shahbazyan and Levan Chokheli from Jun 19 to Jun 20, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Leon Shahbazyan moves from 24% to 24% and Levan Chokheli from 76% to 76%. A gold marker sits at the first snapshot in this window — our pick was published before the window opened, not at that price.15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%Jun 19 22:00Jun 20 04:00Jun 20 10:00Jun 20 15:00Jun 20 21:00▲ our call: Levan Chokheli (MED)24%76%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Levan Chokheli's implied chance moved up from 76% to 76% (+1.0pp). Our pick was published 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 Levan Chokheli at 64.7%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 76.5% — our number sat 11.8pp 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
SeriesOpenLowHighLast captureMove
Leon Shahbazyan — sportsbook consensus23.8%23.2%23.9%23.4%−0.3pp
Levan Chokheli — sportsbook consensus76.2%76.1%76.8%76.6%+0.3pp
Leon Shahbazyan — Polymarket24.5%22.5%24.5%23.5%−1.0pp
Levan Chokheli — Polymarket75.5%75.5%77.5%76.5%+1.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 271 snapshots on file · window Jun 19 22:57–Jun 20 21:21Z · last capture Jun 20, 21:21Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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