Palmer vs Khaybulaev

Who won Palmer vs Khaybulaev?

Movlid Khaybulaev beat Lance Palmer by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest during the main card of PFL 2021 #6, on Friday 25th June 2021 at Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Movlid Khaybulaev.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Featherweight division, which meant the weight limit was 145 pounds (10.4 stone or 65.8 KG).

Palmer vs Khaybulaev stats

Lance Palmer stepped into the octagon with a record of 22 wins, 3 losses and 0 draws, 1 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 8 by submission.

Movlid Khaybulaev made his way to the cage with an unblemished record of 15 wins, 0 losses, and 1 draw, 6 of those wins coming by knock out and 2 by submission.

Lance Palmer's PFL record stood at 12-3-0, while Movlid Khaybulaev's came in at 7-0-1.

The stats suggested Khaybulaev had a massive power advantage over Palmer, boasting a 40% knock out percentage over Palmer's 5%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Palmer had a large advantage over Khaybulaev, boasting a 36% submission rate over Khaybulaev's 13%.

Lance Palmer was the older man by 4 years, at 37 years old.

Khaybulaev had 1-inch reach advantage.

Palmer was the more experienced professional fighter, having had 9 more fights, and made his debut in 2011, 5 months earlier than Khaybulaev, whose first professional fight was in 2011. He had fought 36 more professional rounds, 87 to Khaybulaev's 51.

Palmer vs Khaybulaev form

Palmer had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges 3 times.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Bubba Jenkins at PFL 2021 #1 on 23rd April 2021 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City, United States.

Previous to that, he had won against Alex Gilpin at PFL 2019 #10 on 31st December 2019 by unanimous decision in their 5 round contest at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Going into that contest, he had beaten Alexandre de Almeida at PFL 2019 #8 on 17th October 2019 by unanimous decision in their 2 round contest at Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas.

Before that, he had defeated Luis Rafael Laurentino at PFL 2019 #5 on 25th July 2019 by knockout in the 3rd round at Ocean Casino Resort, Atlantic City.

He was victorious against Alex Gilpin at PFL 2019 #2 on 23rd May 2019 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Long Island.

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Palmer's last 5 fights had come over a period of 4 years, 11 months and 4 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 11 months and 26 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 16 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3.2 rounds on average.

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