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Brendson Ribeiro vs Magomed Tuchalov

Red corner BrendsonRibeiro“The Gorilla”Brazilian TKO · Hometown (per Sherdog): Vila Mau, Para
VSSettled
Blue corner MagomedTuchalovDagestan Fighter · Hometown (per Sherdog): Makhachkala, Dagestan
Light Heavyweight3 rounds25 Jul 2026
The story going in
  • Has dropped 3 straight in the UFC.
  • Averages 7.3 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Ribeiro.
18-11
Record
7-0
29
Age
−3 yr26
6' 3"
Height
6' 3"
+3″81″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Brazilian TKO
Gym
Dagestan Fighter
Vila Mau, Parahometown, per Sherdog
From
Makhachkala, Dagestanhometown, 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
Magomed Tuchalov
73.6% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 47%
Vs the market−14.5pp
Market had our pick at88%
The fight
Magomed Tuchalov
WIN✗
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Magomed Tuchalov at 73.6% and Magomed Tuchalov 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 — the takedowns, control time and knockdowns beside them, and how the three judges scored that round.

UFCStats · per round

3 rounds of tape

Round 15:00 of action
Brendson Ribeiro18 sig landed
HEAD50%9 of 32BODY6%1 of 3LEGS44%8 of 16
Magomed Tuchalov9 sig landed
HEAD22%2 of 12BODY0%0 of 2LEGS78%7 of 9
18 of 51
Sig.
strikes
9 of 23
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:00
Control
0:00
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 17Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ribeiro firstEric Colón10–9Clemens Werner10–9Cezary Wojciechowski10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Brendson Ribeiro13 sig landed
HEAD23%3 of 28BODY23%3 of 7LEGS54%7 of 15
Magomed Tuchalov22 sig landed
HEAD36%8 of 24BODY18%4 of 11LEGS45%10 of 10
13 of 50
Sig.
strikes
22 of 45
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 7
0:00
Control
0:44
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 13Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 21Clinch 0Ground 1
Judges · this round · Ribeiro firstEric Colón9–10Clemens Werner9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10
Round 35:00 of action1 sub attemptEnded 5:00
Brendson Ribeiro8 sig landed
HEAD75%6 of 13BODY0%0 of 1LEGS25%2 of 3
Magomed Tuchalov4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 10BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
8 of 17
Sig.
strikes
4 of 12
0 of 1
Take-
downs
6 of 6
0:08
Control
3:36
0
Sub
attempts
1
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 1
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Ribeiro firstEric Colón9–10Clemens Werner9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10

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.

The cards, totalled

The judges’ final totals, the media’s cards beside them, and how these judges usually score. Their round-by-round 10–9s are with the rounds above.

Official card

Unanimous Decision

Referee · Daniel Movahedi
Brendson RibeiroMagomed Tuchalov
Official totals — Brendson Ribeiro first
JudgeTotal
Eric Colón2.0 avg spread · 42% wide28–29
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide28–29
Cezary Wojciechowski28–29

Each judge’s round-by-round scores sit with the round they belong to, in the round-by-round section above — switch a round there and the three cards for it change with the stats.

Media cards — 11 scored, Brendson Ribeiro first · unofficial

Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com28–29
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com28–29
CombatPress.com28–29
Unattributed28–29
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com28–29
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com28–29
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–29
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com28–29
MMAMania.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Tuchalov · 82%29-28 Ribeiro · 18%

22 fan cards submitted to MMA Decisions.

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.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Brendson Ribeiro

0.66takedowns / 15 min
0.66 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
8.00 / 15m
1.78 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
14.04 / 15m
37%
ACCURACY
57%
0.40 / 15m
SUB ATT
1.00 / 15m

Magomed Tuchalov

8.00takedowns / 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 (6.25 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Light Heavyweight

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.

Brendson RibeiroMagomed TuchalovPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Brendson Ribeiro vs Magomed Tuchalov — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Brendson Ribeiro and Magomed Tuchalov from Jul 21 to Jul 25, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Brendson Ribeiro moves from 36% to 20% and Magomed Tuchalov from 64% 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.5%15%25%35%45%55%65%75%85%95%Jul 21Jul 22Jul 23Jul 24Jul 25▲ our call: Magomed Tuchalov (MED)20%80%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Magomed Tuchalov's implied chance moved up from 64% to 80% (+15.0pp). 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 Magomed Tuchalov at 73.6%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 79.5% — our number sat 5.9pp 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
Brendson Ribeiro — sportsbook consensus14.8%11.9%19.8%19.8%+4.9pp
Magomed Tuchalov — sportsbook consensus85.2%80.2%88.1%80.2%−4.9pp
Brendson Ribeiro — Polymarket35.5%11.5%35.5%20.5%−15.0pp
Magomed Tuchalov — Polymarket64.5%64.5%88.5%79.5%+15.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,154 snapshots on file · window Jul 21 14:06–Jul 25 14:18Z · last capture Jul 25, 14:18Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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