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History · 2021 · UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Movsar Evloev vs Hakeem Dawodu
From the tape · 12 Jun 2021

Movsar Evloev vs Hakeem Dawodu

UFC 263: Adesanya vs. Vettori 2 · Glendale, Arizona, USA
Result

Movsar Evloev beat Hakeem Dawodu

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
FeatherweightMain cardReferee · Mike Beltran

We published no prediction for this bout. Everything on this page is the official record and the tape it was fought on — the result, the round-by-round counts, the judges’ cards where they exist and the sportsbook line where one was published. Our graded calls start in 2026 and live on the public record.

Red corner MovsarEvloevAmerican Top Team · Born in Ordzhonikidzvskaya, Ingushetia, Russia, (now Sunzha, Ingushetia, Russia) · Fights out of Sunzha, Ingushetia, Russia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner HakeemDawodu“Mean”Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada · Fights out of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Featherweight3 rounds12 Jun 2021At the time: #14 Featherweight vs #15 · rankings of 7 June 2021
The story going in
  • Unbeaten — 4-0 in the UFC.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Averages 4.8 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Dawodu.
  • Lands 1.5 more significant strikes a minute than Evloev.
20-0
Record
13-4-1
−2 yr27
Age
29
5' 7"
Height
+1″5' 8"
72″
Reach
+1″73″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
4
UFC bouts
+26
0/40% of wins
Finishes
+20%1/520% of wins
Ordzhonikidzvskaya, Ingushetia, Russia, (now Sunzha, Ingushetia, Russia)
Born in
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Sunzha, Ingushetia, Russia
Fights out of
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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.

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
Movsar Evloev11 sig landed
HEAD91%10 of 12BODY0%0 landedLEGS9%1 of 1
Hakeem Dawodu7 sig landed
HEAD86%6 of 14BODY0%0 of 2LEGS14%1 of 2
11 of 13
Sig.
strikes
7 of 18
4 of 6
Take-
downs
0 of 0
3:36
Control
0:00
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 9Clinch 0Ground 2
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evloev firstSal D'Amato10–9Brad Frank10–9Chris Lee10–9
Round 25:00 of action1 sub attempt
Movsar Evloev14 sig landed
HEAD100%14 of 15BODY0%0 landedLEGS0%0 landed
Hakeem Dawodu1 sig landed
HEAD0%0 of 2BODY0%0 landedLEGS100%1 of 2
14 of 15
Sig.
strikes
1 of 4
3 of 3
Take-
downs
0 of 0
4:34
Control
0:11
1
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 0Clinch 0Ground 14
Where it
happened
Distance 1Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evloev firstSal D'Amato10–8Brad Frank10–8Chris Lee10–8
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Movsar Evloev17 sig landed
HEAD76%13 of 56BODY18%3 of 4LEGS6%1 of 2
Hakeem Dawodu31 sig landed
HEAD65%20 of 54BODY23%7 of 12LEGS13%4 of 4
17 of 62
Sig.
strikes
31 of 70
2 of 4
Take-
downs
0 of 1
0:45
Control
0:05
0
Sub
attempts
0
Distance 12Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Evloev firstSal D'Amato9–10Brad Frank9–10Chris Lee9–10

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 · Mike Beltran
Movsar EvloevHakeem Dawodu
Official totals — Movsar Evloev first
JudgeTotal
Sal D'Amato2.1 avg spread · 46% wide29–27
Brad Frank29–27
Chris Lee2.0 avg spread · 44% wide29–27

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 — 15 scored, Movsar Evloev first · unofficial

MM AMania.com29–26
Ben Duffy Sherdog.com29–26
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com29–26
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–27
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–27
Steve Duncan mma.uno29–27
Marcel Dorff mmadna.nl29–27
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–27
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–27
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com29–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com29–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com29–27
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-27 Evloev · 44%29-26 Evloev · 22%29-28 Evloev · 15%30-26 Evloev · 9%30-25 Evloev · 2%

79 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.

Movsar Evloev

4.78takedowns / 15 min
4.78 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
0.00 / 15m
9.19 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
n/a
52%
ACCURACY
n/a
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m

Hakeem Dawodu

0.00takedowns / 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 (6.09 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Featherweight

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.

Movsar Evloev↓ −5.8pp
open 71.5%close 65.7%
Hakeem Dawodu↑ +5.8pp
open 28.5%close 34.3%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Movsar Evloev opened at 71.5% and closed at 65.7% (−5.8pp), with Hakeem Dawodu 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.

Show the numbers
CornerOpen (US)Close (US)Open %Close %Move
Movsar Evloev-280-21971.5%65.7%−5.8pp
Hakeem Dawodu24017928.5%34.3%+5.8pp
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 2026-06-10. No price series was captured for this bout, so no line is drawn between the two points.
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