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Melsik Baghdasaryan vs Murtazali Magomedov

Red corner MelsikBaghdasaryan“The Gun”Glendale Fighting Club · Born in Yerevan, Armenia · Fights out of Glendale, California
VSSettled
Blue corner MurtazaliMagomedovHometown (per Sherdog): Bishkek
Featherweight3 rounds21 Jun 2026
The story going in
  • Carries 70 points more takedown defence than Magomedov.
  • Averages 5.2 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Baghdasaryan.
8-4
Record
11-0
34
Age
−8 yr26
5' 9"
Height
5' 9"
70″
Reach
70″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
Glendale, Californiafights out of
From
Bishkekhometown, 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
Murtazali Magomedov
70.4% confidentMED
Method calledDEC 44%
Vs the market−4.1pp
Market had our pick at75%
The fight
Murtazali Magomedov
WIN✗
How it endedSUB
Round1 of 3
Clock1:17
BonusPOTN
Called it We called Murtazali Magomedov at 70.4% and Murtazali Magomedov 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 11:17 of action1 sub attemptEnded 1:17
Melsik Baghdasaryan3 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 9BODY100%3 of 3LEGS0%0 of 1
Murtazali Magomedov5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 5BODY0%0 landedLEGS40%2 of 2
3 of 13
Sig.
strikes
5 of 7
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 2
0:00
Control
0:27
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 5Clinch 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

Murtazali Magomedov

Round
1
Clock
1:17
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: Chris Tognoni.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Melsik Baghdasaryan

0.00takedowns / 15 min
0.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
5.17 / 15m
n/a
ATTEMPTS
10.34 / 15m
n/a
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
5.20 / 15m

Murtazali Magomedov

5.17takedowns / 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 published.

Melsik BaghdasaryanMurtazali MagomedovPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Melsik Baghdasaryan vs Murtazali Magomedov — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Melsik Baghdasaryan and Murtazali Magomedov from Jun 01 to Jun 20, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Melsik Baghdasaryan moves from 38% to 20% and Murtazali Magomedov from 62% to 80%. 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 1Jun 6Jun 11Jun 16Jun 20▲ our call: Murtazali Magomedov (MED)20%80%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Murtazali Magomedov's implied chance moved up from 62% to 80% (+19.0pp). 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 Murtazali Magomedov at 70.4%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 80.5% — our number sat 10.1pp 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
Melsik Baghdasaryan — sportsbook consensus33.6%21.5%40.0%21.5%−12.1pp
Murtazali Magomedov — sportsbook consensus66.4%60.0%78.5%78.5%+12.1pp
Melsik Baghdasaryan — Polymarket38.5%19.5%62.5%19.5%−19.0pp
Murtazali Magomedov — Polymarket61.5%37.5%80.5%80.5%+19.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 3,866 snapshots on file · window Jun 01 17:20–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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