Edmen Shahbazyan out-pointed Brunno Ferreira at home in Los Angeles
Three rounds, three cards, and a contract never offered below 61 cents. A home win the market mostly saw coming.
By ExclusiveTuna · UFC 331: Van vs Pantoja 2 · Crypto.com Arena, Los Angeles
Edmen Shahbazyan beat Brunno Ferreira by unanimous decision in the UFC 331 early prelim headliner on September 19, 2026, at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The middleweight bout went the full three rounds and ended at 5:00 of round three. The cards read 29-28, 29-28 and 30-27. Shahbazyan moves to 17-6.
The short version
- Edmen Shahbazyan beat Brunno Ferreira by Decision (unanimous), round 3, 5:00
- Early prelims, Middleweight, 3 rounds
- Closing line: Edmen Shahbazyan −185, Brunno Ferreira +154
- Edmen Shahbazyan traded at 63¢ before the fight and settled at 100¢
- Scorecards: 29-28, 29-28, 30-27
What happened
Fifteen minutes, no finish, three cards all one way. Two judges scored it 29-28. The third had it 30-27. Shahbazyan took every one. Round-by-round strike and takedown numbers are not publicly retrievable for this bout, so the scorecards are the record we have, and the spread between them says at least one round split the judges.
Shahbazyan is 28 and from Los Angeles, so this was a home fight at Crypto.com Arena. He is now 17-6 and 4-1 in his last five. Ferreira is 33, out of Curitiba, and drops to 15-5. Three straight losses now, which is a hard place to sit at middleweight. The bout closed out the early prelims, the last one before the card stepped up to the prelim block.
Closing the early prelims is a decent slot, and a Los Angeles fighter in a Los Angeles building is an obvious reason to hold it. Shahbazyan delivered the result without the finish, which is roughly what the pre-fight price implied. For Ferreira the maths is harder. Three in a row at 33, in a division that does not wait around, and the next one carries weight.
What the market did
Read this before the table. The lowest trade on this market printed at 43¢, and you will see that number quoted elsewhere. It was not a price you could buy at. It was a seller hitting the bid. The best offer at that moment was 61¢, 18¢ higher, and that is the number this page uses.
Shahbazyan was priced at 63c (-185) going in. The cheapest a buyer could have paid while the fight was live was 61c at 22:40Z on September 19, two cents under his pre-fight number. Ferreira was +154 on the book. There was no real move in this one. All three cards came back for Shahbazyan and the contract settled at 100c.
Other sites will quote 43c. That was a seller hitting the bid, eighteen cents below the best offer, the widest gap on the card, and it came in the thinnest minute of any bout with 24,805 contracts traded. 43 cents was never reachable. The in-play story here is not a 20 cent slide. It is two cents of movement in a fight nobody was repricing.
What each stake returned
| Stake | Contracts at 63¢ | Returned | Contracts at 61¢ | Returned |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $100.00 | 158 | $158.00 | 163 | $163.00 |
| $200.00 | 317 | $317.00 | 327 | $327.00 |
| $5,000.00 | 7,936 | $7,936.00 | 8,196 | $8,196.00 33% of the minute |
The right half is the best offer that existed while the fight was live. Getting filled there still depends on size being available, which a candlestick cannot tell you. Where a stake would have been a large share of that minute's entire volume, the table says so rather than printing a number nobody could have collected. Volume on that minute was 24,805 contracts. Returns are gross of the Kalshi trading fee and are hindsight: they show what a price paid once the result was known, not what anyone should stake next.
The bout, on the record
| Result | Edmen Shahbazyan def. Brunno Ferreira |
|---|---|
| Method | Unanimous decision, 3 rounds |
| Scorecards | 29-28, 29-28, 30-27 |
| Weight class | Middleweight, early prelim headliner |
| Pre-fight price | 63c (-185) |
| Cheapest you could buy | 61c, 22:40Z Sept 19 |
| Lowest trade printed | 43c, a seller hitting the bid |
| Settlement | 100c |
Quick answers
Who won Shahbazyan vs Ferreira at UFC 331?
Edmen Shahbazyan won by unanimous decision after three rounds. The cards read 29-28, 29-28 and 30-27, all for Shahbazyan. It headlined the UFC 331 early prelims in his home city of Los Angeles.
What weight class was Shahbazyan vs Ferreira?
Middleweight, scheduled for three rounds. It was the last fight of the UFC 331 early prelims, which streamed on Paramount+ and UFC Fight Pass before the prelim block started at 7:00pm ET.
Who were the judges for Shahbazyan vs Ferreira?
The individual judges' names for this bout are not in the public record we could verify, so we are not naming them. The three cards themselves are on record: 29-28, 29-28 and 30-27, all for Shahbazyan.
All 12 bouts and the full UFC 331 results board
Sources and method
Results and scorecards from the official UFC event pages, cross-checked against Sherdog and theScore. Closing moneylines from BestFightOdds and DraftKings, captured after the event. Contract prices are Kalshi one-minute candlesticks on the KXUFCFIGHT series, market KXUFCFIGHT-26SEP19SHAFER-SHA. Where sources disagree on a finish time or a method, both readings are carried on this page rather than resolved silently. We aren't affiliated with the UFC or Kalshi.