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Michael Page vs Nursulton Ruziboev

Red corner MichaelPage“Venom”London Shootfighters · Born in Westminster, London, England · Fights out of London, England
VSSettled
Blue corner NursultonRuziboev“Black”Born in Shahrixon, Andijan Region, Uzbekistan · Fights out of Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Middleweight3 rounds5 Sep 2026At the time: Michael Page was #15 at Middleweight · rankings of 1 September 2026
The story going in
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Comes in on a 3-fight win streak.
  • Carries 20 points more takedown defence than Ruziboev.
  • Has finished 4 of 5 UFC wins.
26-3
Record
37-10-2
39
Age
−7 yr32
6' 3"
Height
+2″6' 5"
+3″79″
Reach
76″
Switch
Stance
Orthodox
5
UFC bouts
+16
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+80%4/580% of wins
Westminster, London, England
Born in
Shahrixon, Andijan Region, Uzbekistan
London, England
Fights out of
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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
Michael Venom Page
61.4% confidentMED
Method calledKO/TKO 43%
Vs the market−2.3pp
Market had our pick at64%
The fight
Michael Venom Page
WIN✗
How it endedDEC
Round3 of 3
Clock5:00
Called it We called Michael Venom Page at 61.4% and Michael Venom Page 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 action1 sub attempt
Michael Page4 sig landed
HEAD50%2 of 3BODY25%1 of 1LEGS25%1 of 1
Nursulton Ruziboev4 sig landed
HEAD100%4 of 6BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
4 of 5
Sig.
strikes
4 of 6
0 of 1
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:00
Control
4:20
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 1Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 4
Judges · this round · Page firstBen Cartlidge9–10Anders Ohlsson9–10Clemens Werner9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Michael Page5 sig landed
HEAD40%2 of 8BODY20%1 of 2LEGS40%2 of 3
Nursulton Ruziboev2 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 12BODY50%1 of 1LEGS50%1 of 1
5 of 13
Sig.
strikes
2 of 14
0 of 1
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:49
Control
0:01
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 5Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 2Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Page firstBen Cartlidge10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Michael Page3 sig landed
HEAD100%3 of 8BODY0%0 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
Nursulton Ruziboev2 sig landed
HEAD50%1 of 8BODY50%1 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
3 of 10
Sig.
strikes
2 of 9
0 of 0
Take-
downs
1 of 1
0:17
Control
1:07
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 3Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Page firstBen Cartlidge10–9Anders Ohlsson10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Jason Herzog
Michael PageNursulton Ruziboev
Official totals — Michael Page first
JudgeTotal
Ben Cartlidge2.1 avg spread · 45% wide29–28
Anders Ohlsson1.9 avg spread · 41% wide29–28
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

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 — 14 scored, Michael Page first · unofficial

Unattributed29–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–28
Unattributed29–28
CombatPress.com29–28
Dayne Fox Sherdog.com29–28
Unattributed29–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Unattributed29–28
Nolan King MMAJunkie.com29–28
Tudor Leonte Sherdog.com29–28
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com29–29
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com28–29

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Page · 52%29-28 Ruziboev · 30%30-27 Page · 12%30-27 Ruziboev · 6%

33 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.

Michael Page

0.16takedowns / 15 min
0.16 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.52 / 15m
1.33 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
2.03 / 15m
12%
ACCURACY
75%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.20 / 15m

Nursulton Ruziboev

1.52takedowns / 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 (6.86 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Middleweight

The market story

Where the price started and where it finished — the sportsbook consensus, with the vig removed. We captured no price series for this bout, so there is no chart to draw.

Michael Page↑ +3.3pp
open 60.4%close 63.7%
Nursulton Ruziboev↓ −3.3pp
open 39.6%close 36.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Michael Page opened at 60.4% and closed at 63.7% (+3.3pp), with Nursulton Ruziboev moving the other way by the same amount — the two are one de-vigged pair, so they always sum to 100%. There is no line between those two points because nobody recorded one: we hold the open and the close for this bout, not the days in between.

Our published call had Michael Venom Page at 61.4%. At the closing consensus, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 63.7% — our number sat 2.3pp 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
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Michael Page-165-19560.4%63.7%+3.3pp
Nursulton Ruziboev14516539.6%36.3%−3.3pp
Opening and closing moneylines from BestFightOdds (data/refs/bfo_fighter_moneylines.csv), one row per fighter per bout, de-vigged pairwise so the two corners sum to 100% · scraped 2026-10-11. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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