Reported prose from our newsroom. Leg-kick heavy
Diyar Nurgozhay brings a 1-2 UFC record to Saturday's card at the UFC APEX.
The light heavyweight debuted March 15, 2025, and lost by submission in the second round to Brendson Ribeiro.
He lost again Aug. 23, 2025, submitted by Uran Satybaldiev in the first round.
Nurgozhay got his first UFC win March 7, 2026, taking a unanimous decision over Rafael Tobias across three rounds.
All three of his UFC appearances have been light heavyweight bouts. Both losses came by submission, and the win was his first fight in the promotion to reach the judges.
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.
| Nickname | pending |
| Nationality | Kazakhstan |
| Hometown | Astana |
| Fighting out of | Tobet Top Team |
| Height | 6' 2" |
| Reach | 74.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 29 |
| Date of birth | Apr 22, 1997 |
| Weight | 205 lbs. |
| Pro record | 11-2 |
| Finish split | pending |
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against every fighter on record. Tap any i for what a score measures.
The moat — every call we've made on this fighter, timestamped and graded in public. Nobody else can copy this.
FightIQ has picked Diyar Nurgozhay 3×, 1 correct (1-2 — 33.3% right). The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.
| Date | Opponent | Card | We said | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-08 | Bruno Lopes | Gamrot vs Salkilld | 56.5% | Correct |
| 2025-08-23 | Uran Satybaldiev | UFC Fight Night: Long vs You | 55.4% | Missed |
| 2025-03-15 | Brendson Ribeiro | UFC Fight Night: Duben vs Judice | 69.8% | Missed |
Where the strikes go — and where they land on him. Career UFC totals, straight off the tape.
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.
Pro record: 11-2. Timeline below is the bouts FightIQ has tracked (most recent first).
