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Khamzat Chimaev
15-1tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record15-1
Current streak1 loss
Last 5 (UFC)L W W W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age32
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox wrestle-submission campaigning at Middleweight. 9 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 3 decision. Top 8% of Middleweights: averages 5.32 takedowns per 15 minutes and stuffs 87% of the takedowns tried on 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameBorz
NationalityUnited Arab Emirates
HometownDubai
Fighting out ofAllstars Training Center
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age32
Date of birthMay 01, 1994
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record15-1
Finish split9 UFC wins — 2 KO/TKO, 4 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Khamzat Chimaev’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 / min4.01
Striking accuracy54%
Strikes absorbed / min2.98
Striking defence52%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min5.32
Takedown accuracy58%
Takedown defence87%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.40

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking82
Defence54
Grappling / TD79
Cardio84
Chin95
Fight IQ79

Our calls on Khamzat Chimaev’s fights

Every fight of Khamzat Chimaev’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 Khamzat Chimaev’s fights in 2026: 0 correct (0–1 — 0% 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
2026-05-09Sean StricklandKhamzat Chimaev84.2%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 3 of Khamzat Chimaev’s fights, 3 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

Khamzat Chimaev

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

HEAD76.1%ACC 49%BODY14.6%ACC 56%LEGS9.3%ACC 97%
FightIQ read Ground striker 41% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
76.1% acc 49%+12.5 vs field
BODY
14.6% acc 56%−6.0 vs field
LEGS
9.3% acc 97%−6.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 56%CLINCH 3%GROUND 41%

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.

10 UFC fights · 396 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Khamzat Chimaev

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 — +3.05 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS92
5.32 / 15m+3.05 vs field
ATTEMPTS87
9.17 / 15m+3.85 vs field
ACCURACY76
58%+11pp vs field
SUB ATT70
1.40 / 15m−0.16 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-1. In the UFC: 9-1. Khamzat Chimaev’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 — 10 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-05-09LSean StricklandDecision (split)R5UFC 328: Chimaev vs. Strickland
2025-08-16WDricus Du PlessisDecision (unanimous)R5UFC 319: Du Plessis vs. Chimaev
2024-10-26WRobert WhittakerSubmissionR1UFC 308: Topuria vs. Holloway
2023-10-21WKamaru UsmanDecision (majority)R3UFC 294: Makhachev vs. Volkanovski 2
2022-09-10WKevin HollandSubmissionR1UFC 279: Diaz vs. Ferguson
2022-04-09WGilbert BurnsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 273: Volkanovski vs. The Korean Zombie
2021-10-30WLi JingliangSubmissionR1UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira
2020-09-19WGerald MeerschaertKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Covington vs. Woodley
2020-07-25WRhys McKeeKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Till
2020-07-15WJohn PhillipsSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Ige

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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