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Diyar Nurgozhay
12-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Diyar Nurgozhay’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

Pro record12-2
Current streak2 wins
Last 4 (UFC)W W L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age29
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw technical striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 7% of Light Heavyweights: completes 75% of his takedown attempts and avoids 61% of the strikes thrown at him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityKazakhstan
HometownAstana
Fighting out ofTobet Top Team
Height6' 2"
Reach74.0"
StanceSouthpaw
Age29
Date of birthApr 22, 1997
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record12-2
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Diyar Nurgozhay’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 / min4.52
Striking accuracy59%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence61%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.37
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence80%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking86
Defence76
Grappling / TD68
Cardio limited sample48
Chin54
Fight IQ66

Our calls on Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights

Every fight of Diyar Nurgozhay’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–1 — 50% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-08-08Bruno LopesDiyar Nurgozhay56.5%Correct
2026-03-07Rafael TobiasRafael Tobias (against Nurgozhay)70.4%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights, 0 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

Diyar Nurgozhay

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

HEAD33.7%ACC 45%BODY36.8%ACC 75%LEGS29.5%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.5% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +12.5 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
33.7% acc 45%−30.1 vs field
BODY
36.8% acc 75%+17.6 vs field
LEGS
29.5% acc 86%+12.5 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 83%CLINCH 5%GROUND 12%

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.

4 UFC fights · 166 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Diyar Nurgozhay

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

1.37takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.37 landed per 15 minutes — −0.90 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS43
1.37 / 15m−0.90 vs field
ATTEMPTS17
1.83 / 15m−3.61 vs field
ACCURACY93
75%+32pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.59 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.96 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-2. In the UFC: 2-2. Diyar Nurgozhay’s last 4 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.

Full UFC career — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-08WBruno LopesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld
2026-03-07WRafael TobiasDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2
2025-08-23LUran SatybaldievSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
2025-03-15LBrendson RibeiroSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2

Every date links to that bout’s own page. Card names come from the official event record; where the UFC ran two cards on one date, or that record has no row for it, the Event column is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

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