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Volkan Oezdemir
21-8tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

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

Pro record21-8
Current streak1 win
Last 5 (UFC)W L W W L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age36
Height6' 2"
StanceOrthodox

6' 2" orthodox power striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 9 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision. Top 10% of Light Heavyweights: lands 4.99 significant strikes a minute.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameNo Time
NationalitySwitzerland
HometownFribourg
Fighting out ofFight Move Academy
Height6' 2"
Reach75.0"
StanceOrthodox
Age36
Date of birthSep 19, 1989
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record21-8
Finish split9 UFC wins — 5 KO/TKO, 1 submission, 3 decision

Career rates facts

Career averages over Volkan Oezdemir’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 / min4.99
Striking accuracy48%
Strikes absorbed / min4.19
Striking defence55%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.50
Takedown accuracy29%
Takedown defence80%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

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.
Striking74
Defence53
Grappling / TD15
Cardio52
Chin74
Fight IQ54

Our calls on Volkan Oezdemir’s fights

We have not called one of Volkan Oezdemir’s fights in the live 2026 season. What we do have is back-tested, and it is labelled as such.

back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Volkan Oezdemir’s fights, 2 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

Volkan Oezdemir

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

HEAD62.6%ACC 39%BODY15.2%ACC 74%LEGS22.2%ACC 89%
FightIQ read Low-kick threat 22.2% to the legs — +5.2 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
62.6% acc 39%−1.2 vs field
BODY
15.2% acc 74%−4.0 vs field
LEGS
22.2% acc 89%+5.2 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 80%CLINCH 12%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.

16 UFC fights · 751 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Volkan Oezdemir

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

0.50takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.50 takedowns and 0.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS13
0.50 / 15m−1.77 vs field
ATTEMPTS14
1.72 / 15m−3.71 vs field
ACCURACY26
29%−14pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.49 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: 21-8. In the UFC: 9-7. Volkan Oezdemir’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 — 16 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-11-22WAlonzo MenifieldKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Tsarukyan vs. Hooker
2024-11-23LCarlos UlbergDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Yan vs. Figueiredo
2024-06-22WJohnny WalkerKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Whittaker vs. Aliskerov
2023-09-02WBogdan GuskovSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Spivac
2022-10-22LNikita KrylovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 280: Oliveira vs. Makhachev
2022-07-23WPaul CraigDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Aspinall
2021-10-30LMagomed AnkalaevDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 267: Blachowicz vs. Teixeira
2020-07-11LJiri ProchazkaKO/TKOR2UFC 251: Usman vs. Masvidal
2019-12-21WAleksandar RakicDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Edgar vs. The Korean Zombie
2019-08-10WIlir LatifiKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Shevchenko vs. Carmouche 2
2019-03-16LDominick ReyesDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvidal
2018-10-27LAnthony SmithSubmissionR3UFC Fight Night: Oezdemir vs. Smith
2018-01-20LDaniel CormierKO/TKOR2UFC 220: Miocic vs. Ngannou
2017-07-29WJimi ManuwaKO/TKOR1UFC 214: Cormier vs. Jones 2
2017-05-28WMisha CirkunovKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Gustafsson vs. Teixeira
2017-02-04WOvince Saint PreuxDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Bermudez vs. The Korean Zombie

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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