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Ilia Topuria

17-1-0
29y·5' 7"·69" reach·Orthodox
3:04
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.85
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
78%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
1.6
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

Tells

Non-traditional predictors we've tested against the record. Only the ones that fire on this fighter show up here.

The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in June 2023, 64 head strikes before that night. Never-yet-stopped fighters carrying that kind of mileage took a first KO in 11.0% of fights; the lightest third ran 15.6%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 10 recorded bouts, 502 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 68%Body 21%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 77%Clinch 7%Ground 16%
And how often each lands
Head44%
Body70%
Legs80%
Distance46%
Clinch76%
Ground72%

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.

9Wins6 KO · 1 SUB · 2 DEC
1Losses1 KO

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.

54%
Zalal
2%
Jackson
28%
Hall
44%
Herbert
16%
Mitchell
14%
Emmett
1%
Volkanovski
6%
Holloway
41%
Oliveira
13%
Gaethje

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
R14.28100%10
R25.86137%7
R33.9893%4
R47.302
R51.601

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.82
Strikes absorbed / min3.97
Striking accuracyof everything thrown50%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed62%
Takedowns / 15 min1.73
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land57%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed95%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.9
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together8.79
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 10 bouts10.4m

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.

45.8%
Landed at range
845 thrown over 10 bouts
39.5%
Expected
against these opponents
+6.3pp
Gap
above expected
90.9%
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

LJustin GaethjeJun 2026KO R42:32 ctrl97 str1 td
Significant strikes
97 of 162 · 60%
Total strikes
111 of 177 · 63%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
2:32
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R4 5:00
to Corner Stoppage
Target
Head 57%Body 38%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 23%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
WCharles OliveiraJun 2025KO R11:01 ctrl21 str0 td
Significant strikes
21 of 29 · 72%
Total strikes
24 of 32 · 75%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:27
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 81%Body 14%Legs 5%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 0%Ground 14%
This fight on UFCStats
WMax HollowayOct 2024KO R30:45 ctrl75 str2 td
Significant strikes
75 of 144 · 52%
Total strikes
78 of 147 · 53%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
0:45
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 1:34
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 65%Body 15%Legs 20%
Position
Distance 95%Clinch 0%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WAlexander VolkanovskiFeb 2024KO R20:03 ctrl35 str0 td
Significant strikes
35 of 77 · 45%
Total strikes
36 of 78 · 46%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 3:32
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 49%Body 34%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 11%Ground 9%
This fight on UFCStats
WJosh EmmettJun 2023U-DEC3:35 ctrl152 str3 td
Significant strikes
152 of 344 · 44%
Total strikes
171 of 365 · 47%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
3:35
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 5 rounds
Target
Head 82%Body 6%Legs 13%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 1%Ground 24%
This fight on UFCStats
WBryce MitchellDec 2022SUB R21:18 ctrl40 str0 td
Significant strikes
40 of 77 · 52%
Total strikes
53 of 93 · 57%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:18
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R2 3:10
Arm Triangle From Side Control
Target
Head 85%Body 13%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 8%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WJai HerbertMar 2022KO R22:41 ctrl20 str1 td
Significant strikes
20 of 41 · 49%
Total strikes
31 of 55 · 56%
Takedowns
1 of 4 · 25%
Control
2:41
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 1:07
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 85%Body 15%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 10%Ground 20%
This fight on UFCStats
WRyan HallJul 2021KO R11:20 ctrl18 str0 td
Significant strikes
18 of 32 · 56%
Total strikes
18 of 32 · 56%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
1:20
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:47
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 61%Body 11%Legs 28%
Position
Distance 17%Clinch 0%Ground 83%
This fight on UFCStats
WDamon JacksonDec 2020KO R10:03 ctrl31 str0 td
Significant strikes
31 of 63 · 49%
Total strikes
31 of 64 · 48%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:03
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:38
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 39%Body 58%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 97%Clinch 0%Ground 3%
This fight on UFCStats
WYoussef ZalalOct 2020U-DEC8:02 ctrl13 str5 td
Significant strikes
13 of 33 · 39%
Total strikes
30 of 62 · 48%
Takedowns
5 of 9 · 56%
Control
8:02
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
5
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 54%Body 46%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 92%Clinch 8%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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