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Muhammad Naimov

Hillman
13-4-0
32y·5' 9"·70" reach·Orthodox
3:51
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.84
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
40%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.6
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.

Chin Decay

Predictive

First KO loss December 2025. Fighters at the same age and mileage lose by KO in 11.3% of fights; after a first KO it runs 17.3%.

Read the research

Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 1 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 179 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 59%Body 22%Legs 18%
Position
Distance 70%Clinch 16%Ground 13%
And how often each lands
Head30%
Body63%
Legs83%
Distance34%
Clinch66%
Ground56%

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.

5Wins2 KO · 3 DEC
3Losses1 KO · 1 SUB · 1 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%
Mullarkey
45%
Wood
25%
Silva
23%
Lima
37%
Ofli
19%
Grad
21%
Santos
0%
Keita

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
R12.41100%8
R22.2593%6
R32.1187%5

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.51
Strikes absorbed / min3.35
Striking accuracyof everything thrown40%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed44%
Takedowns / 15 min1.49
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land30%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed68%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together5.86
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts9.8m

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.

35.4%
Landed at range
345 thrown over 7 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

Too much of this record was set against opponents who had no distance history of their own yet. The expected number would mostly be the division average wearing a disguise, so it's held back.

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

LLosene KeitaSep 2026KO R10:00 ctrl4 str0 td
Significant strikes
4 of 24 · 17%
Total strikes
4 of 24 · 17%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 2:54
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 50%Body 50%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LMairon SantosDec 2025KO R32:08 ctrl18 str0 td
Significant strikes
18 of 48 · 38%
Total strikes
35 of 69 · 51%
Takedowns
0 of 5 · 0%
Control
2:08
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:21
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 39%Body 33%Legs 28%
Position
Distance 72%Clinch 28%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WBogdan GradJun 2025U-DEC2:53 ctrl18 str1 td
Significant strikes
18 of 54 · 33%
Total strikes
70 of 119 · 59%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
2:53
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 17%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 89%Clinch 11%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WKaan OfliFeb 2025U-DEC5:36 ctrl32 str2 td
Significant strikes
32 of 92 · 35%
Total strikes
79 of 176 · 45%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
5:36
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 72%Body 25%Legs 3%
Position
Distance 69%Clinch 19%Ground 13%
This fight on UFCStats
LFelipe LimaJun 2024SUB R32:36 ctrl30 str1 td
Significant strikes
30 of 85 · 35%
Total strikes
55 of 120 · 46%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
2:36
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R3 1:15
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 47%Body 20%Legs 33%
Position
Distance 87%Clinch 7%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
WErik SilvaFeb 2024KO R10:11 ctrl1 str1 td
Significant strikes
1 of 2 · 50%
Total strikes
3 of 4 · 75%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:11
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 0:44
to Leg Injury to Silva
Target
Head 100%Body 0%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WNathaniel WoodOct 2023U-DEC6:42 ctrl48 str4 td
Significant strikes
48 of 81 · 59%
Total strikes
100 of 140 · 71%
Takedowns
4 of 9 · 44%
Control
6:42
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 65%Body 21%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 50%Clinch 23%Ground 27%
This fight on UFCStats
WJamie MullarkeyJun 2023KO R20:01 ctrl28 str0 td
Significant strikes
28 of 70 · 40%
Total strikes
30 of 72 · 42%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:01
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 2:59
Punch to Head At Distance
Target
Head 61%Body 18%Legs 21%
Position
Distance 71%Clinch 11%Ground 18%
This fight on UFCStats

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