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Dricus Du Plessis vs Nassourdine ImavovFantasy matchup — not a booked fight

#2 at Middleweight · #3 at Middleweight
Not a booked fightFANTASY MATCHUP — this fight is not booked. What our two blind models would say if it were.
UFC 10-1 · Pro 24-3
#2 at Middleweight
VS
UFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC) · Pro 17-4
#3 at Middleweight

If they fought

A statistical read on a fight that does not exist — no market, no booking, nothing to grade it against.

Dricus Du Plessis 63% Nassourdine Imavov 37%

Run as an unbooked fight, this one splits our two reads — they do not name the same winner, so there is no lean here to give you.

Our two reads disagree. One leans Dricus Du Plessis at 63%; the other leans Nassourdine Imavov at 52%. When they split like this there is no read worth having — treat it as a coin toss.

The same read puts the chance it goes the full distance at 48%.

KO/TKO
36%
Submission
8%
Decision
56%
These figures come from the same statistical reads we run on real cards, with the betting market removed — there is no market on a fight nobody has booked. Nothing here is timestamped against a result, nothing here is graded, and none of it counts towards our public record. It is a thought experiment with real numbers behind it.

Tale of the tape

Dricus Du Plessis vs Nassourdine Imavov — the facts, side by side. ▲ marks the reach edge.

UFC 10-1UFC recordUFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC)
24-3Pro record17-4
StillknocksNicknameThe Sniper
6' 1"Height6' 3"
76"Reach75"
SwitchStanceOrthodox
32Age30
185 lbs.Weight185 lbs.
South AfricaNationalityFrance
Pretoria, GautengHometownParis
Team CITFighting out ofVenum Training Camp
Vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves.

Stat-by-stat

Dricus Du Plessis (left) vs Nassourdine Imavov (right) — career striking & grappling rates. The fighter ahead on each row is highlighted in their corner colour.

Strikes landed / min
5.21
vs
4.28
Striking accuracy
48%
vs
54%
Strikes absorbed / min
4.24
vs
3.17
Striking defence
54%
vs
58%
Takedowns / 15 min
1.9
vs
0.74
Takedown accuracy
48%
vs
32%
Takedown defence
50%
vs
81%
Sub attempts / 15 min
0.6
vs
1
Career averages from public UFC statistics. On “strikes absorbed / min”, fewer is better.

Fights that have happened between them

None.

Dricus Du Plessis and Nassourdine Imavov have never met in the UFC.

Every matchup on this page is a pairing that has never happened. That is how they are chosen: if these two had already met in the Octagon, there would be a real result to read instead, and this page would not exist.

The real fighters

Everything above is hypothetical. These are not.

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