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Alexander Volkanovski vs Movsar Evloev
Alexander Volkanovski def. Movsar Evloev · KO/TKO · Round 2, 4:54
Orthodox · Freestyle · American Top Team
Evloev’s profileTale of the tape
How they win
Volkanovski
28 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 13
- Submission
- 3
- Decision
- 12
Evloev
20 wins on file
- KO/TKO
- 3
- Submission
- 4
- Decision
- 13
How these figures are measured
- Sig. strikes landed per minute
- Significant strikes landed, divided by minutes fought. Career figure.
- Strike accuracy, all strikes
- Every strike landed as a share of every strike thrown, significant or not, over the career. ESPN's own figure. It is not significant-strike accuracy, which runs lower.
- Takedowns per 15 minutes
- Takedowns landed for every 15 minutes fought, the length of a three-round bout. Career figure.
- Takedown accuracy
- Takedowns landed as a share of those attempted. Career figure.
- Submission attempts per 15 minutes
- Submission attempts for every 15 minutes fought. Career figure.
- Finish rate
- Share of the wins on file that ended by knockout, technical knockout or submission.
- Days since last fight
- From the last bout on file to the date of this one.
Records, measurements and career averages are reported by ESPN. The UFC record, last fight, finish rate and win methods are counted by Statwell from the bouts on file for each fighter, which can be fewer than the full professional record. No striking or grappling averages are available for both fighters yet.
Matchup snapshot
Volkanovski
18 measured UFC bouts, 303.0 minutes
Evloev
10 measured UFC bouts, 160.0 minutes
- 5.991815 landed of 3178 thrown (57%)
- Significant strikes landedper minute
- 3.91625 landed of 1312 thrown (48%)
- 3.31opponents landed 1003 of 2431
- Significant strikes absorbedper minute
- 2.80opponents landed 448 of 1157
- 34%33 of 97 attempts
- Takedowns completedof those attempted
- 53%51 of 97 attempts
- 69%conceded 14 of 45 faced
- Takedowns defendedof those faced
- 61%conceded 14 of 36 faced
- 6scored, 4 suffered
- Knockdownsscored and suffered
- 0scored, 0 suffered
About these statistics
Counted by Statwell from ESPN’s per-bout figures over each fighter’s measured UFC bouts. Small samples move quickly: read each figure with the number of bouts behind it. Nothing here is adjusted for the level of past opponents.
Recent form
Alexander Volkanovski
3-2 in last 5- W
vs Diego Lopes
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 325: Volkanovski vs. Lopes 2
Sig. strikes 98 of 160 · Takedowns 2 of 7
- W
vs Diego Lopes
Decision - Unanimous · R5 · 5:00
· UFC 314: Volkanovski vs. Lopes
Sig. strikes 158 of 259 · Takedowns 1 of 11
- L
vs Ilia Topuria
KO/TKO · R2 · 3:32
· UFC 298: Volkanovski vs. Topuria
Sig. strikes 47 of 107
- L
vs Islam Makhachev
KO/TKO · R1 · 3:06
· UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2
Sig. strikes 4 of 6
- W
vs Yair Rodriguez
KO/TKO · R3 · 4:19
· UFC 290: Volkanovski vs. Rodriguez
Sig. strikes 66 of 97 · Takedowns 7 of 12
Movsar Evloev
5-0 in last 5- W
vs Lerone Murphy
Decision - Majority · R5 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Evloev vs. Murphy
Sig. strikes 86 of 189 · Takedowns 9 of 10
- W
vs Aljamain Sterling
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 310: Pantoja vs. Asakura
Sig. strikes 8 of 26 · Takedowns 4 of 5
- W
vs Arnold Allen
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 297: Strickland vs. Du Plessis
Sig. strikes 51 of 118 · Takedowns 5 of 17
- W
vs Diego Lopes
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC 288: Sterling vs. Cejudo
Sig. strikes 88 of 129 · Takedowns 4 of 7
- W
vs Dan Ige
Decision - Unanimous · R3 · 5:00
· UFC Fight Night: Volkov vs. Rozenstruik
Sig. strikes 68 of 129 · Takedowns 9 of 16
Statwell Intel
The full analysis is published.
Movsar Evloev attempts more than nine takedowns every 15 minutes and has not lost. Alexander Volkanovski has been held for 13:50 across 18 UFC bouts. Both numbers are tested over five rounds.
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