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Nazim Sadykhov

11-3-1
32y·5' 10"·69" reach·Southpaw
1:57
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.73
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.7
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%.

Fired again Jun 2026

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The Odometer

Backwards

Crossed into the heaviest third of head strikes eaten for their age in February 2025, 115 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%.

Fired again Jun 2026

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Checked 3 tells for this fighter. 2 fired.

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 7 recorded bouts, 273 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 66%Body 24%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 18%Ground 9%
And how often each lands
Head39%
Body79%
Legs66%
Distance41%
Clinch79%
Ground83%

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.

5Wins4 KO · 1 SUB
2Losses2 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.

3%
Elder
15%
McKinney
24%
Borshchev
12%
Bonfim
16%
Motta
7%
Ziam
0%
Camilo

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
R13.43100%7
R26.32184%5
R36.432

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min4.69
Strikes absorbed / min5.42
Striking accuracyof everything thrown48%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed49%
Takedowns / 15 min1.08
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land45%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed72%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.2
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together10.11
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 7 bouts8.2m

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.

40.7%
Landed at range
491 thrown over 7 bouts
42.0%
Expected
against these opponents
−1.3pp
Gap
below expected
72.4%
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

LMatheus CamiloJun 2026KO R10:00 ctrl0 str0 td
Significant strikes
0 of 16 · 0%
Total strikes
0 of 16 · 0%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 1:31
Punch to Head At Distance
This fight on UFCStats
LFares ZiamDec 2025KO R20:39 ctrl4 str0 td
Significant strikes
4 of 16 · 25%
Total strikes
7 of 21 · 33%
Takedowns
0 of 2 · 0%
Control
0:39
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:59
Punches to Head On Ground
Target
Head 25%Body 0%Legs 75%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WNikolas MottaJun 2025KO R21:29 ctrl93 str0 td
Significant strikes
93 of 150 · 62%
Total strikes
102 of 161 · 63%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
1:29
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R2 4:17
Punches to Head At Distance
Target
Head 65%Body 27%Legs 9%
Position
Distance 62%Clinch 35%Ground 2%
This fight on UFCStats
WIsmael BonfimFeb 2025DOC R10:35 ctrl13 str0 td
Significant strikes
13 of 46 · 28%
Total strikes
14 of 49 · 29%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:35
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R1 5:00
Target
Head 69%Body 15%Legs 15%
Position
Distance 92%Clinch 8%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
DViacheslav BorshchevNov 2023M-DEC3:32 ctrl91 str4 td
Significant strikes
91 of 207 · 44%
Total strikes
109 of 228 · 48%
Takedowns
4 of 7 · 57%
Control
3:32
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Majority decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 71%Body 21%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 73%Clinch 5%Ground 22%
This fight on UFCStats
WTerrance McKinneyJul 2023SUB R20:55 ctrl8 str0 td
Significant strikes
8 of 15 · 53%
Total strikes
20 of 27 · 74%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:55
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
Submission, R2 1:07
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 75%Body 0%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 75%Clinch 0%Ground 25%
This fight on UFCStats
WEvan ElderFeb 2023DOC R30:19 ctrl64 str1 td
Significant strikes
64 of 132 · 48%
Total strikes
71 of 141 · 50%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:19
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Doctor's stoppage, R3 0:38
Target
Head 59%Body 30%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 84%Clinch 16%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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