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Khabib Nurmagomedov
29-0tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Khabib Nurmagomedov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Wrestle-submission

Pro record29-0
Current streak13 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionLightweight
Age37
Height5' 10"
StanceOrthodox

5' 10" orthodox wrestle-submission campaigning at Lightweight. 13 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 6 decision. Top 4% of Lightweights: averages 5.32 takedowns per 15 minutes and avoids 65% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Eagle
NationalityRussia
HometownMakhachkala, Dagestan
Fighting out ofpending
Height5' 10"
Reach70.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age37
Date of birthSep 20, 1988
Weight155 lbs.
Pro record29-0
Finish split13 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 5 submission, 6 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Khabib Nurmagomedov’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 / min4.10
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min1.75
Striking defence65%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min5.32
Takedown accuracy48%
Takedown defence84%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.80

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Lightweight 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 Lightweight.
Striking75
Defence90
Grappling / TD72
Cardio71
Chin99
Fight IQ81

Strike zones

Strike zones

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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

HEAD85.7%ACC 46%BODY9.2%ACC 75%LEGS5.1%ACC 92%
FightIQ read Ground striker 54% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
85.7% acc 46%+23.6 vs field
BODY
9.2% acc 75%−11.6 vs field
LEGS
5.1% acc 92%−12.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 42%CLINCH 4%GROUND 54%

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.

13 UFC fights · 705 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Khabib Nurmagomedov

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

5.32takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Volume wrestler 5.32 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — +3.19 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS96
5.32 / 15m+3.19 vs field
ATTEMPTS92
11.08 / 15m+5.68 vs field
ACCURACY67
48%+4pp vs field
SUB ATT53
0.80 / 15m−0.50 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.22 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 Lightweight

Recent form

Pro record: 29-0. In the UFC: 13-0. Khabib Nurmagomedov’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.

Full UFC career — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2020-10-24WJustin GaethjeSubmissionR2UFC 254: Khabib vs. Gaethje
2019-09-07WDustin PoirierSubmissionR3UFC 242: Khabib vs. Poirier
2018-10-06WConor McGregorSubmissionR4UFC 229: Khabib vs. McGregor
2018-04-07WAl IaquintaDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 223: Khabib vs. Iaquinta
2017-12-30WEdson BarbozaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm
2016-11-12WMichael JohnsonSubmissionR3UFC 205: Alvarez vs McGregor
2016-04-16WDarrell HorcherKO/TKOR2UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs Evans
2014-04-19WRafael Dos AnjosDecision (unanimous)R3UFC on FOX: Werdum vs Browne
2013-09-21WPat HealyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 165: Jones vs Gustafsson
2013-05-25WAbel TrujilloDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 160: Velasquez vs Silva 2
2013-01-19WThiago TavaresKO/TKOR1UFC on FX: Belfort vs Bisping
2012-07-07WGleison TibauDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 148: Silva vs Sonnen 2
2012-01-20WKamal ShalorusSubmissionR3UFC on FX: Guillard vs Miller

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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