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Shamil Gaziev
15-3tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Shamil Gaziev’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Power striker

Pro record15-3
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L L W W
DivisionHeavyweight
Age36
Height6' 4"
StanceOrthodox

6' 4" orthodox power striker campaigning at Heavyweight. 4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 20% of Heavyweights: stuffs 83% 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityBahrain
HometownManama
Fighting out ofKHK MMA
Height6' 4"
Reach78.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthFeb 10, 1990
Weight265 lbs.
Pro record15-3
Finish split4 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 1 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Shamil Gaziev’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 / min2.94
Striking accuracy46%
Strikes absorbed / min4.92
Striking defence45%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.06
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence83%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.30

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking55
Defence33
Grappling / TD26
Cardio14
Chin16
Fight IQ29

Our calls on Shamil Gaziev’s fights

Every fight of Shamil Gaziev’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 2 of Shamil Gaziev’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–1 — 50% 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
2026-08-22Kennedy NzechukwuKennedy Nzechukwu (against Gaziev)52.6%Missed
2026-05-02Brando PericicBrando Pericic (against Gaziev)60.7%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 5 of Shamil Gaziev’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

Shamil Gaziev

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

HEAD71.5%ACC 38%BODY26.7%ACC 82%LEGS1.8%FIELD 15%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 71.5% upstairs — +4.7 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
71.5% acc 38%+4.7 vs field
BODY
26.7% acc 82%+8.2 vs field
LEGS
1.8%−12.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 72%CLINCH 19%GROUND 8%

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.

7 UFC fights · 165 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Shamil Gaziev

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

1.06takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.06 landed per 15 minutes — −1.33 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS34
1.06 / 15m−1.33 vs field
ATTEMPTS42
3.21 / 15m−1.81 vs field
ACCURACY29
33%−18pp vs field
SUB ATT16
0.30 / 15m−1.35 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (5.77 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-3. In the UFC: 4-3. Shamil Gaziev’s last 7 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 — 7 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-22WKennedy NzechukwuKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Hernandez vs. Rodrigues
2026-05-02LBrando PericicKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Della Maddalena vs. Prates
2025-11-22LWaldo Cortes AcostaKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker
2025-02-01WThomas PetersenKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov
2024-08-03WDon'Tale MayesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Nurmagomedov
2024-03-02LJairzinho RozenstruikKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Rozenstruik vs. Gaziev
2023-12-16WMartin BudayKO/TKOR2UFC 296: Edwards vs. Covington

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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