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Blagoy Ivanov
19-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Blagoy Ivanov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

Pro record19-6
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age39
Height5' 11"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 11" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision.

Every figure here is recomputed at build time from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date. If a number isn’t in the data, it isn’t in this profile.

Tale of the tape facts

The facts, plainly — vitals and record from public UFC statistics; nickname, nationality, hometown and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value.

NicknameBaga
NationalityBulgaria
HometownSofia
Fighting out ofSK Absolute Bulgaria
Height5' 11"
Reach73.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age39
Date of birthOct 09, 1986
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record19-6
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Blagoy Ivanov’s UFC bouts, straight from public UFC statistics — the same eight numbers on his official record. These are the source’s figures, not our read: what we make of them is the card below.

Striking
Strikes landed / min3.25
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min4.20
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.69
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Heavyweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.

FightIQ's read — derived from the tape
Our read — derived, not official stats. Ranked within Heavyweight.
Striking48
Defence50
Grappling / TD23
Cardio57
Chin97
Fight IQ55

Our calls on Blagoy Ivanov’s fights

We have not called one of Blagoy Ivanov’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Blagoy Ivanov’s fights, 2 correct. Back-tested, not part of the public timestamped record: these were computed after the fact, so they show the model working on old cards — they were never published ahead of those fights.

Strike zones

Strike zones

Blagoy Ivanov

Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.

HEAD78.0%ACC 35%BODY20.1%ACC 84%LEGS1.9%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 78.0% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +11.2 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.0% acc 35%+11.2 vs field
BODY
20.1% acc 84%+1.6 vs field
LEGS
1.9%−12.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 9%GROUND 2%

Significant strikes only, as recorded by UFCStats, across the fighter's whole UFC career. Shares are raw counts — nothing here is modelled or smoothed. Accuracy is landed ÷ attempted and comes from the per-round tape, which covers slightly fewer fights than the totals do. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.

8 UFC fights · 422 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Blagoy Ivanov

The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.

0.69takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.69 takedowns and 0.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS20
0.69 / 15m−1.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS22
1.72 / 15m−3.29 vs field
ACCURACY41
40%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.55 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 takedowns / 15m); a fighter above it pins the bar. Percentages are drawn on their own axis.

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.

Ranked in Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-6. In the UFC: 3-5. Blagoy Ivanov’s last 8 UFC bouts, most recent first — the result in the cage, not our pick.

Straight off the official UFC fight record. Card names are left off on purpose: the only event labels in our data are derived, and we’d rather print nothing than print one that’s wrong.

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