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Damian Rzepecki vs Magomed Zaynukov

Red corner DamianRzepeckiTop Fit Center Piotrkow Trybunalski · Born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland · Fights out of Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
VSSettled
Blue corner MagomedZaynukovAbdulmanap Nurmagomedov School · Born in Botlikhsky, Dagestan, Russia · Fights out of Makhachkala, Russia
Lightweight3 rounds25 Jul 2026
10-1
Record
9-0
−7 yr24
Age
31
5' 10"
Height
5' 10"
+3″71″
Reach
68″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
Top Fit Center Piotrkow Trybunalski
Gym
Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov School
Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
Born in
Botlikhsky, Dagestan, Russia
Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
Fights out of
Makhachkala, Russia
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 Zaynukov
61.7% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 37%
Vs the market−9.6pp
Market had our pick at71%
The fight
Magomed Zaynukov
WIN✗
How it endedU-DEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Magomed Zaynukov at 61.7% and Magomed Zaynukov 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
Damian Rzepecki7 sig landed
HEAD43%3 of 11BODY29%2 of 3LEGS29%2 of 2
Magomed Zaynukov22 sig landed
HEAD41%9 of 24BODY18%4 of 7LEGS41%9 of 12
7 of 16
Sig.
strikes
22 of 43
1 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
2:04
Control
0:19
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 17Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rzepecki firstBen Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Damian Rzepecki4 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 12BODY50%2 of 2LEGS50%2 of 4
Magomed Zaynukov29 sig landed
HEAD72%21 of 41BODY14%4 of 4LEGS14%4 of 4
4 of 18
Sig.
strikes
29 of 49
0 of 2
Take-
downs
1 of 1
1:39
Control
0:29
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 11Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rzepecki firstBen Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Cezary Wojciechowski9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Damian Rzepecki5 sig landed
HEAD60%3 of 23BODY0%0 of 3LEGS40%2 of 2
Magomed Zaynukov23 sig landed
HEAD70%16 of 28BODY0%0 of 4LEGS30%7 of 7
5 of 28
Sig.
strikes
23 of 39
0 of 4
Take-
downs
1 of 4
1:19
Control
0:06
Distance 4Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 18Clinch 5Ground 0
Judges · this round · Rzepecki firstBen Cartlidge9–10Vito Paolillo9–10Cezary 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 · Marc Goddard
Damian RzepeckiMagomed Zaynukov
Official totals — Damian Rzepecki first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide27–30
Vito Paolillo2.0 avg spread · 46% wide27–30
Cezary Wojciechowski27–30

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 — 7 scored, Damian Rzepecki first · unofficial

CombatPress.com27–30
Unattributed27–30
Unattributed27–30
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com27–30
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com27–30
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com27–30
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com27–30

Fan vote · unofficial

30-27 Zaynukov · 57%29-28 Zaynukov · 14%30-25 Zaynukov · 10%30-26 Zaynukov · 10%

21 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.

Damian Rzepecki

1.00takedowns / 15 min
1.00 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
2.00 / 15m
7.14 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
4.00 / 15m
14%
ACCURACY
50%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Magomed Zaynukov

2.00takedowns / 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 (5.19 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Lightweight

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.

Damian RzepeckiMagomed ZaynukovPolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Damian Rzepecki vs Magomed Zaynukov — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Damian Rzepecki and Magomed Zaynukov from Jul 17 to Jul 25, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Damian Rzepecki moves from 26% to 28% and Magomed Zaynukov from 74% to 72%. 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 17Jul 19Jul 21Jul 23Jul 25▲ our call: Magomed Zaynukov (MED)28%72%

From the open the market drifted away from our pick: Magomed Zaynukov's implied chance moved down from 74% to 72% (−3.0pp). 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 Zaynukov at 61.7%. At the last price we captured before the fight, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 71.5% — our number sat 9.8pp 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
Damian Rzepecki — sportsbook consensus25.8%22.8%29.3%29.3%+3.5pp
Magomed Zaynukov — sportsbook consensus74.2%70.7%77.2%70.7%−3.5pp
Damian Rzepecki — Polymarket25.5%25.0%87.5%28.5%+3.0pp
Magomed Zaynukov — Polymarket74.5%12.5%75.0%71.5%−3.0pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 2,275 snapshots on file · window Jul 17 15:12–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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