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Blagoy Ivanov

19-6-0 (1 NC)
39y·5' 11"·73" reach·Southpaw
1:16
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.95
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
0%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.2
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 422 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 78%Body 20%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 9%Ground 2%
And how often each lands
Head35%
Body84%
Legs100%
Distance38%
Clinch73%
Ground89%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

3Wins3 DEC
5Losses5 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

0%
Santos
0%
Rothwell
18%
Tuivasa
22%
Lewis
8%
Sakai
26%
Lima
0%
Tybura
0%
Romanov

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R12.55100%8
R24.13162%8
R33.08121%8
R43.001
R53.401

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.25
Strikes absorbed / min4.2
Striking accuracyof everything thrown40%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed53%
Takedowns / 15 min0.69
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land40%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.45
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts16.3m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

38.4%
Landed at range
982 thrown over 8 bouts
43.3%
Expected
against these opponents
−4.9pp
Gap
below expected
85.2%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

LAlexandr RomanovJul 2023U-DEC0:00 ctrl44 str0 td
Significant strikes
44 of 108 · 41%
Total strikes
44 of 108 · 41%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 86%Body 11%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LMarcin TyburaFeb 2023U-DEC0:00 ctrl34 str0 td
Significant strikes
34 of 113 · 30%
Total strikes
34 of 113 · 30%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 71%Body 29%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WMarcos Rogerio de LimaMay 2022U-DEC3:52 ctrl62 str0 td
Significant strikes
62 of 128 · 48%
Total strikes
75 of 142 · 53%
Takedowns
0 of 4 · 0%
Control
3:52
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 85%Body 15%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 13%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LAugusto SakaiMay 2020S-DEC1:08 ctrl66 str1 td
Significant strikes
66 of 125 · 53%
Total strikes
71 of 130 · 55%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
1:08
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 71%Body 27%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 79%Clinch 18%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
LDerrick LewisNov 2019S-DEC3:22 ctrl20 str3 td
Significant strikes
20 of 38 · 53%
Total strikes
61 of 83 · 73%
Takedowns
3 of 6 · 50%
Control
3:22
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 60%Body 35%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 60%Clinch 40%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WTai TuivasaJun 2019U-DEC2:38 ctrl73 str2 td
Significant strikes
73 of 123 · 59%
Total strikes
81 of 131 · 62%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
2:38
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 89%Body 10%Legs 1%
Position
Distance 85%Clinch 7%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats
WBen RothwellMar 2019U-DEC0:00 ctrl72 str0 td
Significant strikes
72 of 178 · 40%
Total strikes
73 of 179 · 41%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 26%Legs 4%
Position
Distance 97%Clinch 3%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LJunior Dos SantosJul 2018U-DEC0:02 ctrl51 str0 td
Significant strikes
51 of 229 · 22%
Total strikes
51 of 229 · 22%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:02
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 78%Body 20%Legs 2%
Position
Distance 96%Clinch 4%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.