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Saparbeg Safarov
9-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Saparbeg Safarov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Grappling-led all-rounder

Pro record9-3
Current streak1 loss
Last 4 (UFC)L W L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age39
Height6' 1"
StanceOrthodox

6' 1" orthodox grappling-led all-rounder campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 1 UFC win — 1 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Fighting out ofpending
Height6' 1"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age39
Date of birthOct 14, 1986
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record9-3
Finish split1 UFC win — 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Saparbeg Safarov’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 / min4.03
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min2.96
Striking defence47%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min2.52
Takedown accuracy41%
Takedown defence33%
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.
Striking69
Defence53
Grappling / TD62
Cardio limited sample71
Chin47
Fight IQ60

Strike zones

Strike zones

Saparbeg Safarov

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

HEAD81.7%ACC 44%BODY8.3%FIELD 19%LEGS10.0%FIELD 17%
FightIQ read Ground striker 42% of what he lands is struck on the mat, not at range.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
81.7% acc 44%+17.9 vs field
BODY
8.3%−10.9 vs field
LEGS
10.0%−7.0 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 50%CLINCH 8%GROUND 42%

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 · 120 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Saparbeg Safarov

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

2.52takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 2.52 landed per 15 minutes — +0.25 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS72
2.52 / 15m+0.25 vs field
ATTEMPTS65
6.15 / 15m+0.71 vs field
ACCURACY52
41%−2pp 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: 9-3. In the UFC: 1-3. Saparbeg Safarov’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
2020-03-07LRodolfo VieiraSubmissionR1UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
2019-03-16WNicolae NegumereanuDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal
2018-02-10LTyson PedroSubmissionR1UFC 221: Romero vs. Rockhold
2016-12-09LGian VillanteKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Abdurakhimov

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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