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Leon Shahbazyan vs Niko Price

Red corner LeonShahbazyanGlendale Fighting Club · Hometown (per Sherdog): Glendale, California
VSSettled
Blue corner NikoPrice“The Hybrid”Futures MMA · Born in Cape Coral, Florida, United States · Fights out of Cape Coral, Florida, United States
Welterweight3 rounds10 Oct 2026
The story going in
  • Is 9 points more accurate striking than Price.
  • Has dropped 4 straight in the UFC.
  • Has finished 6 of 8 UFC wins.
12-6
Record
17-11
−7 yr30
Age
37
+4″6' 4"
Height
6' 0"
74″
Reach
+2″76″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
1
UFC bouts
+2021
Glendale Fighting Club
Gym
Futures MMA
Glendale, Californiahometown, per Sherdog
From
Cape Coral, Florida, United Statesfights out of
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
Leon Shahbazyan
59.7% confidentLOW
Method calledKO/TKO 49%
Vs the market+2.8pp
Market had our pick at57%
The fight
Niko Price
LOSS✓
How it endedKO/TKO
Round1 of 3
Clock1:58
Missed We called Leon Shahbazyan at 59.7% — Niko Price won. We had the method right and the man wrong.
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 →

By the numbers

  • Age

    Shahbazyan is 6 years younger. With an age gap of 6 to 7 years, the younger fighter wins 60% of UFC fights (636 of 1,056 fights).

Counted from every UFC fight on record before this bout. These are history, not our model’s read.

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 11:58 of actionEnded 1:58
Leon Shahbazyan0 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 1BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed

No significant strikes landed — 1 thrown

Niko Price41 sig landed
HEAD95%39 of 57BODY5%2 of 2LEGS0%0 landed
0 of 1
Sig.
strikes
41 of 59
0 of 2
Take-
downs
0 of 0
0:00
Control
1:45
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 4Clinch 0Ground 37

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

Niko Price

Round
1
Clock
1:58
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: Chris Tognoni.

Takedowns

Takedowns

The level change — head to head

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

Leon Shahbazyan

1.41takedowns / 15 min
1.41 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.06 / 15m
2.82 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.53 / 15m
50%
ACCURACY
30%
0.00 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.60 / 15m

Niko Price

1.06takedowns / 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 (5.27 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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 frozen.

Leon ShahbazyanNiko PricePolymarketSportsbook consensus (vig removed)
Leon Shahbazyan vs Niko Price — implied win chance over timeLine chart. Market-implied win chance for Leon Shahbazyan and Niko Price from Oct 02 to Oct 10, drawn from Polymarket and the sportsbook consensus. Leon Shahbazyan moves from 50% to 56% and Niko Price from 50% to 44%. A gold marker shows where our pick was frozen.35%40%45%50%55%60%65%Oct 2Oct 4Oct 6Oct 8Oct 10▲ our call: Leon Shahbazyan (LOW)56%44%

From the open the market drifted toward our pick: Leon Shahbazyan's implied chance moved up from 50% to 56% (+5.5pp).

This series stops at Oct 10 22:41Z — the point at which this bout’s own market began the move that ended in settlement. Our capture window is card-level and kept running through the fight, so what follows it in the raw file is the market collapsing live and then paying out at 1.00 / 0.00. That is a settlement, not price history: it is not drawn, and it is not counted in the figures below.

Our published call had Leon Shahbazyan at 59.7%. At the last price we captured before this bout’s market began to settle, the de-vigged market had the same fighter at 55.5% — our number sat 4.2pp above 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 pre-fightMove
Leon Shahbazyan — sportsbook consensus57.4%56.8%59.1%56.9%−0.5pp
Niko Price — sportsbook consensus42.6%40.9%43.2%43.1%+0.5pp
Leon Shahbazyan — Polymarket50.0%49.5%60.5%55.5%+5.5pp
Niko Price — Polymarket50.0%39.5%50.5%44.5%−5.5pp
Price history from Polymarket (moneyline, both corners) and BestFightOdds (sportsbook consensus, vig removed). 1,157 snapshots on file · window Oct 02 22:11–Oct 10 22:31Z · last capture Oct 10, 22:31Z · hourly-downsampled for the chart · read at build time from the price archive, not a live feed.
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