Reported prose from our newsroom. Submission grappler
Islam Makhachev is 17-1 in 18 UFC fights, a run that began with his debut on May 23, 2015.
He has won each of his past five. He beat Alexander Volkanovski by unanimous decision over five rounds on Feb. 11, 2023, in a lightweight title bout, then stopped Volkanovski by knockout in the first round of their rematch on Oct. 21, 2023.
Two submissions followed. He finished Dustin Poirier in the fifth round on June 1, 2024, and submitted Renato Moicano in the first round on Jan. 18, 2025.
His most recent appearance came at welterweight: a five-round unanimous decision over Jack Della Maddalena on Nov. 15, 2025, in a welterweight title bout.
All five of those fights were booked as UFC title bouts, and three of the five went the full five rounds.
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 | Russia |
| Hometown | Makhachkala, Dagestan |
| Fighting out of | pending |
| Height | 5' 10" |
| Reach | 70.0" |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Age | 34 |
| Date of birth | Oct 27, 1991 |
| Weight | 170 lbs. |
| Pro record | 29-1 |
| Finish split | 18 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 8 submission, 7 decision |
Career averages over Islam Makhachev’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.
Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Welterweight field — not against the whole roster. Tap any i for what a score measures.
Every fight of Islam Makhachev’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 1 of Islam Makhachev’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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.
| Date | Opponent | We called it for | Confidence | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | Ian Machado Garry | Islam Makhachev | 68.2% | Correct |
Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Islam Makhachev’s fights, 5 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.
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. “Field” is the average fighter in that weight class, or across every division where a class is too small to average.
The level change — how often it lands, how often it is stopped. Career UFC rates, straight off the tape.
Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (4.97 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.
Pro record: 29-1. In the UFC: 18-1. Islam Makhachev’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.
| Date | Opponent | Method | Rd | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-15 | W | Ian Machado Garry | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 330: Makhachev vs. Machado Garry |
| 2025-11-15 | W | Jack Della Maddalena | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 322: Della Maddalena vs. Makhachev |
| 2025-01-18 | W | Renato Moicano | Submission | R1 | UFC 311: Makhachev vs. Moicano |
| 2024-06-01 | W | Dustin Poirier | Submission | R5 | UFC 302: Makhachev vs. Poirier |
| 2023-10-21 | W | Alexander Volkanovski | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2 |
| 2023-02-11 | W | Alexander Volkanovski | Decision (unanimous) | R5 | UFC 284: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski |
| 2022-10-22 | W | Charles Oliveira | Submission | R2 | UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev |
| 2022-02-26 | W | King Green | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Green |
| 2021-10-30 | W | Dan Hooker | Submission | R1 | UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira |
| 2021-07-17 | W | Thiago Moises | Submission | R4 | UFC Fight Night: Makhachev vs. Moises |
| 2021-03-06 | W | Drew Dober | Submission | R3 | UFC 259: Blachowicz vs. Adesanya |
| 2019-09-07 | W | Davi Ramos | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier |
| 2019-04-20 | W | Arman Tsarukyan | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Oleinik |
| 2018-07-28 | W | Kajan Johnson | Submission | R1 | UFC Fight Night: Alvarez vs. Poirier 2 |
| 2018-01-20 | W | Gleison Tibau | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou |
| 2017-02-11 | W | Nik Lentz | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC 208: Holm vs. De Randamie |
| 2016-09-17 | W | Chris Wade | Decision (unanimous) | R3 | UFC Fight Night: Poirier vs. Johnson |
| 2015-10-03 | L | Adriano Martins | KO/TKO | R1 | UFC 192: Cormier vs Gustafsson |
| 2015-05-23 | W | Leo Kuntz | Submission | R2 | UFC 187: Johnson vs Cormier |
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.
