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How Priscila Cachoeira beats Nina Milošević: win round one
Cachoeira vs Milošević breakdown: how Priscila Cachoeira beats Nina Milošević, from three first-round knockdowns to the 3:41 of UFC film behind the numbers.
Nov 6, 2026 · 7 min read
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How Johnny Walker beats Waldo Cortes Acosta: chop the legs
Cortes Acosta vs Walker breakdown: how Johnny Walker beats Waldo Cortes Acosta, from the 224 leg strikes Cortes Acosta has taken to his clinch finishes.
Nov 5, 2026 · 8 min read
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How Elijah Smith beats Davey Grant: win it before the third
Grant vs Smith breakdown: how Elijah Smith beats Davey Grant, a 40-year-old whose output climbs every round, by taking the first five minutes away from him.
Nov 4, 2026 · 6 min read
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How Virna Jandiroba beats Tatiana Suarez: stuff the first shot
Suarez vs Jandiroba breakdown: how Virna Jandiroba beats Tatiana Suarez, from the 14 straight takedowns Zhang Weili stuffed to the guard that finished Lemos.
Nov 3, 2026 · 7 min read
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Nolan vs Moicano breakdown: 7:17 on his back, still the KO
Nolan vs Moicano breakdown: Renato Moicano held Tom Nolan down for 7:17, the most of his career, and lost anyway. Round by round, how the bottom game won.
Nov 2, 2026 · 6 min read
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OKTAGON 96: how Jessin Ayari beats Amiran Gogoladze
Gogoladze vs Ayari breakdown for the vacant OKTAGON 96 welterweight title: every Gogoladze knockout since 2018 came in round one. What Ayari needs after it.
Oct 30, 2026 · 8 min read
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How Jacobe Smith goes 14-0 against Randy Brown
Randy Brown vs Jacobe Smith breakdown: Smith's takedowns and ground strikes, Brown's length and his submissions off his back, and why round two matters.
Oct 30, 2026 · 8 min read
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How Tom Nolan beats Renato Moicano: volume, body, round three
Moicano vs Nolan breakdown: Tom Nolan's volume and body work against the takedown game Renato Moicano used to finish Jalin Turner, told fight by fight.
Oct 29, 2026 · 8 min read
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How Julian Erosa beats JeongYeong Lee: the third-round wrestler
Julian Erosa vs JeongYeong Lee breakdown: the takedown, control and pace numbers behind Erosa's paths to an upset, and the first-round danger Lee brings.
Oct 28, 2026 · 7 min read
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Volkanovski vs Evloev breakdown: three takedowns, 35 seconds
Volkanovski vs Evloev breakdown from the UFC 333 stats: three Evloev takedowns bought 35 seconds of control, and all three judges still went 10-9 Volkanovski.
Oct 27, 2026 · 7 min read
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Yan vs Dvalishvili 3: 0 for 39 on takedowns after round two
Yan vs Dvalishvili 3 breakdown: Merab landed 5 of 19 takedowns in the first two rounds at UFC 333, then 0 of 39. The round-by-round numbers behind Yan's win.
Oct 24, 2026 · 6 min read
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Volkanovski vs Evloev: how Evloev takes the belt at UFC 333
How Evloev beats Volkanovski at UFC 333: one takedown a round, the Makhachev blueprint from 2023, and why he has to shoot in the first round, not the third.
Oct 23, 2026 · 7 min read
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Volkanovski vs Evloev: how the champion wins at UFC 333
Volkanovski vs Evloev at UFC 333: leg kicks, range, his own wrestling and rounds four and five. How the champion wins, told in his own UFC numbers.
Oct 22, 2026 · 7 min read
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Kavanagh vs Temirov: how UFC 333's flyweight coin flip breaks
Kavanagh vs Temirov at UFC 333 is a -110 pick'em, but the two paths to a win look nothing alike. Reach, wrestling, Temirov's power and the third round.
Oct 21, 2026 · 6 min read
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Timmy Cuamba vs Louis Jourdain: How Cuamba Won With Four Takedowns
How Timmy Cuamba beat Louis Jourdain at UFC Fight Night Edmonton: 4 of 4 takedowns, 3:36 of first-round control and a second-round submission at 2:48.
Oct 21, 2026 · 5 min read
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Khizriev vs Braga 2: how Khizriev won, and where we were wrong
Khizriev vs Braga 2 went to a split decision at PFL Chicago. The round-by-round receipt: two knockdowns, 3 seconds of control, and why it was close.
Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min read
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Timmy Cuamba vs Louis Jourdain: How Cuamba Wins in Edmonton
Cuamba vs Jourdain at UFC Fight Night Edmonton: why our model makes Timmy Cuamba a 63 percent pick as the underdog, and the round-by-round path to the upset.
Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
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Khizriev vs Braga 2: how Braga beats the 18-0 decision machine
Khizriev vs Braga 2 at PFL Chicago: Braga outlanded the unbeaten Russian 44-34 in their 2024 split decision and still lost. Here is how he closes the gap.
Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
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Allen vs Duncan breakdown: How Brendan Allen won in round five
Allen vs Duncan breakdown: the 10-8 second round, the fourth round Allen stopped shooting, and the round-five takedown that finished Duncan at 2:46.
Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read
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Smilla Sundell vs Aline Pereira: How Sundell Wins at DWCS 96
Sundell vs Pereira at DWCS 96: how the 21-year-old former ONE Muay Thai champion wins on Tuesday, and why our model is less sure of her than the odds.
Oct 12, 2026 · 6 min read
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Jai Herbert vs Matheus Camilo: How Herbert Won the Co-Main
Herbert vs Camilo breakdown from UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan: a round-two reversal, 19 body shots and three 29-28 cards our preview never saw coming.
Oct 11, 2026 · 7 min read
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Matheus Camilo vs Jai Herbert: How Camilo Wins the Co-Main
Camilo vs Herbert breakdown for UFC Fight Night: Allen vs Duncan. Our model gives Camilo 65.7 percent, and the control-time numbers show how he gets there.
Oct 10, 2026 · 5 min read
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How Andre Fili wins: the takedowns that beat the strike count
Andre Fili vs Kai Kamaka III at UFC Fight Night Allen vs Duncan: how Fili's takedowns and control win split decisions he loses on the strike count.
Oct 9, 2026 · 5 min read
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Bibert Tumenov vs Daud Shaikhaev: How Tumenov Wins at ACA 208
Tumenov vs Shaikhaev breakdown for ACA 208: ten of Tumenov's 13 wins inside two rounds, no takedowns allowed, and the two knockdowns Shaikhaev took in 2025.
Oct 3, 2026 · 5 min read