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History · 2021 · UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira · Alexander Volkov vs Marcin Tybura
From the tape · 30 Oct 2021

Alexander Volkov vs Marcin Tybura

UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira · Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Result

Alexander Volkov beat Marcin Tybura

Method
Decision - Unanimous
Round
3 of 3
Clock
5:00
HeavyweightMain cardReferee · Marc Goddard

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 AlexanderVolkov“Drago”Strela Team · Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union · Fights out of Moscow, Russia
VSOn the tape
Blue corner MarcinTybura“Tybur”Ankos MMA · Born in Uniejow, Poland · Fights out of Uniejow, Poland
Heavyweight3 rounds30 Oct 2021At the time: #5 Heavyweight vs #8 · rankings of 25 October 2021
The story going in
  • Has finished 4 of 7 UFC wins.
  • Comes in on a 5-fight win streak.
  • Is 11 points more accurate striking than Tybura.
  • Has finished 4 of 9 UFC wins.
40-11
Record
27-12
−2 yr33
Age
35
+4″6' 7"
Height
6' 3"
+2″80″
Reach
78″
Orthodox
Stance
Orthodox
10
UFC bouts
+414
+13%4/757% of wins
Finishes
4/944% of wins
Strela Team
Gym
Ankos MMA
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Born in
Uniejow, Poland
Moscow, Russia
Fights out of
Uniejow, Poland
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
Alexander Volkov20 sig landed
HEAD75%15 of 33BODY20%4 of 4LEGS5%1 of 1
Marcin Tybura9 sig landed
HEAD56%5 of 30BODY22%2 of 3LEGS22%2 of 2
20 of 38
Sig.
strikes
9 of 35
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 3
1:38
Control
0:25
Distance 16Clinch 1Ground 3
Where it
happened
Distance 7Clinch 2Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkov firstVito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9Clemens Werner10–9
Round 25:00 of action
Alexander Volkov22 sig landed
HEAD64%14 of 35BODY36%8 of 8LEGS0%0 landed
Marcin Tybura28 sig landed
HEAD68%19 of 52BODY32%9 of 10LEGS0%0 of 1
22 of 43
Sig.
strikes
28 of 63
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 7
0:06
Control
0:49
Distance 14Clinch 8Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 8Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkov firstVito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9Clemens Werner9–10
Round 35:00 of actionEnded 5:00
Alexander Volkov33 sig landed
HEAD73%24 of 49BODY18%6 of 6LEGS9%3 of 3
Marcin Tybura21 sig landed
HEAD71%15 of 35BODY19%4 of 4LEGS10%2 of 2
33 of 58
Sig.
strikes
21 of 41
0 of 0
Take-
downs
0 of 6
0:16
Control
0:47
Distance 24Clinch 9Ground 0
Where it
happened
Distance 20Clinch 1Ground 0
Judges · this round · Volkov firstVito Paolillo10–9Darryl Ransom10–9Clemens Werner10–9

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 · Marc Goddard
Alexander VolkovMarcin Tybura
Official totals — Alexander Volkov first
JudgeTotal
Vito Paolillo2.0 avg spread · 46% wide30–27
Darryl Ransom2.2 avg spread · 55% wide30–27
Clemens Werner2.1 avg spread · 50% wide29–28

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 — 18 scored, Alexander Volkov first · unofficial

Jillian DeCoursey30–27
Tim Burke BloodyElbow.com30–27
Tyler Treese Sherdog.com30–27
Brian Knapp Sherdog.com30–27
Jay Pettry Sherdog.com30–27
Ryan Frederick WrestlingObserver.com29–28
Drake Riggs SCMP MMA29–28
Keith Shillan Sherdog.com29–28
Dayne Fox BloodyElbow.com29–28
John Pollock POST Wrestling29–28
Paul Fontaine WrestlingObserver.com29–28
MM AMania.com29–28
MM AJunkie.com29–28
Shawn Bitter Cageside Press29–28
Nick Baldwin theScore29–28
Michael DeSantis MMASucka.com29–28
Jed Meshew MMAFighting.com29–28
Dominik Durniat Polsat Sport29–28

Fan vote · unofficial

29-28 Volkov · 72%30-27 Volkov · 22%29-28 Tybura · 3%30-28 Volkov · 1%

91 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.

Alexander Volkov

0.54takedowns / 15 min
0.54 / 15m
TAKEDOWNS
1.23 / 15m
0.87 / 15m
ATTEMPTS
3.84 / 15m
62%
ACCURACY
32%
0.20 / 15m
SUB ATT
0.10 / 15m

Marcin Tybura

1.23takedowns / 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 (6.29 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

Ranked in Heavyweight

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.

Alexander Volkov↑ +5.6pp
open 65.5%close 71.0%
Marcin Tybura↓ −5.6pp
open 34.5%close 29.0%
0%50%100%
OpenClosing consensus (BFO, vig removed)

Alexander Volkov opened at 65.5% and closed at 71.0% (+5.6pp), with Marcin Tybura 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
Alexander Volkov-210-29365.5%71.0%+5.6pp
Marcin Tybura18022934.5%29.0%−5.6pp
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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