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History · 2021 · UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Sam Alvey vs Wellington Turman
From the tape · 28 Aug 2021

Sam Alvey vs Wellington Turman

UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Result

Wellington Turman beat Sam Alvey

Method
Decision - Split
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
MiddleweightMain cardReferee · Chris Tognoni

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.

SA
Red corner SamAlvey“Smile'N”Team Quest · Born in Waterford, Wisconsin, United States · Fights out of Murrieta, California, United States
VSOn the tape
Blue corner WellingtonTurman“The Prodigy”Teixeira MMA & Fitness · Born in Curitiba, Brazil · Fights out of Danbury, Connecticut, United States
Middleweight3 rounds28 Aug 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 6 of 10 UFC wins.
  • Has dropped 2 straight in the UFC.
  • 21 UFC bouts deep — 17 more than Turman.
  • Averages 1.5 more takedowns per 15 minutes than Alvey.
33-18-1
Record
18-8
35
Age
−10 yr25
+2″6' 2"
Height
6' 0"
+3″75″
Reach
72″
Southpaw
Stance
Orthodox
+1721
UFC bouts
4
6/1060% of wins
Finishes
0/10% of wins
Team Quest
Gym
Teixeira MMA & Fitness
Waterford, Wisconsin, United States
Born in
Curitiba, Brazil
Murrieta, California, United States
Fights out of
Danbury, Connecticut, United States
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 action
Sam Alvey8 sig landed
HEAD100%8 of 19BODY0%0 of 1LEGS0%0 landed
Wellington Turman13 sig landed
HEAD31%4 of 7BODY38%5 of 5LEGS31%4 of 4
8 of 20
Sig.
strikes
13 of 16
0 of 0
Take-
downs
2 of 5
0:58
Control
1:50
Distance 5Clinch 3Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 10Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alvey firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Derek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 25:00 of action
Sam Alvey26 sig landed
HEAD65%17 of 34BODY19%5 of 6LEGS15%4 of 4
Wellington Turman24 sig landed
HEAD50%12 of 29BODY21%5 of 8LEGS29%7 of 7
26 of 44
Sig.
strikes
24 of 44
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:08
Control
0:54
Distance 21Clinch 5Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 24Clinch 0Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alvey firstAdalaide Byrd9–10Derek Cleary9–10Ron McCarthy9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Sam Alvey34 sig landed
HEAD88%30 of 52BODY12%4 of 6LEGS0%0 landed
Wellington Turman32 sig landed
HEAD62%20 of 41BODY28%9 of 14LEGS9%3 of 4
34 of 58
Sig.
strikes
32 of 59
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 2
0:48
Control
0:10
Distance 32Clinch 2Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 29Clinch 3Ground 0
Judges · this round · Alvey firstAdalaide Byrd10–7Derek Cleary9–8Ron McCarthy9–8

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

Split Decision

Referee · Chris Tognoni
Sam AlveyWellington Turman
Official totals — Sam Alvey first
JudgeTotal
Adalaide Byrd2.0 avg spread · 45% wide28–27
Derek Cleary2.0 avg spread · 42% wide27–28
Ron McCarthy2.0 avg spread · 41% wide27–28

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 — 13 scored, Sam Alvey first · unofficial

Nick Baldwin theScore27–28
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com27–28
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA27–28
Steve Duncan mma.uno27–28
Rob Tatum CombatPress.com27–28
Matthew Wells MMAJunkie.com27–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com27–28
Sheehan SevereMMA.com27–28
MM AJunkie.com27–28
Tristen Critchfield Sherdog.com27–28
MM AMania.com28–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com28–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com28–27

Fan vote · unofficial

28-27 Turman · 55%28-27 Alvey · 32%29-26 Alvey · 9%29-27 Alvey · 2%30-26 Alvey · 1%

115 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.

Sam Alvey

0.06takedowns / 15 min
0.06 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.55 / 15m
0.43 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
7.75 / 15m
14%
ACCURACY
20%
0.10 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.80 / 15m

Wellington Turman

1.55takedowns / 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 (5.50 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked roster-wide

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.

Sam Alvey↓ −2.2pp
open 50.0%close 47.8%
Wellington Turman↑ +2.2pp
open 50.0%close 52.2%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Sam Alvey opened at 50.0% and closed at 47.8% (−2.2pp), with Wellington Turman 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
Sam Alvey-110-10150.0%47.8%−2.2pp
Wellington Turman-110-12250.0%52.2%+2.2pp
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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