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Blagoy Ivanov

UFC 3-5Pro 19-6tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Blagoy Ivanov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. All-rounder

UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2018-07-14 · last fight 2023-07-01
Pro record19-6
Current streak2 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L W L L
DivisionHeavyweight
Age40
Height5' 11"
StanceSouthpaw

5' 11" southpaw all-rounder campaigning at Heavyweight. 3 UFC wins — 3 decision.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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 and camp from the public fighter register. A field we can't source stays “pending”; it never shows a fake value. The social accounts are the ones linked from the fighter’s own official athlete page — we don’t match handles by name. The UFC record is counted from the official results themselves, and is dated by the first and last bout it counts.

NicknameBaga
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height5' 11"
Reach73"
StanceSouthpaw
Age40
Date of birthOct 09, 1986
Weight250 lbs.
Pro record19-6
UFC recordUFC 3-5 first fight 2018-07-14 · last fight 2023-07-01
Finish split3 UFC wins — 3 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Blagoy Ivanov has stood in the official UFC rankings, one row per table, each band running from the table that set it to the table that changed it.

Blagoy Ivanov in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Heavyweight204 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 3 December 2018#11–15 · from the table of 5 March 2019#6–10 · from the table of 22 July 2019No table on record · Nov 2019 – Dec 2019#11–15 · from the table of 10 December 2019No table on record · Dec 2019 – Jan 2020#11–15 · from the table of 20 January 2020No table on record · Mar 2020 – May 2020#11–15 · from the table of 11 May 2020#11–15 · from the table of 17 August 2020No table on record · Dec 2020 – Jan 2021#11–15 · from the table of 18 January 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#11–15 · from the table of 17 January 2023First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#8Heavyweight · Oct 2019
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Jul 2023

Official UFC.com official rankings, 2013–present · rankings of 6 October 2026

A published rank holds until the next table changes it, so a band runs from the table that set it to the table that ended it — that is how a ranking works, and it is why an unbroken reign is drawn unbroken. Nothing is interpolated: the band is the last published STATUS, never a rank in between, and the hatched stretches are weeks the archive holds no table for at all. The champion band sits above #1 because a belt is not a rank. The three pound-for-pound tables — the combined one to January 2020, then the Men's and Women's ones — share a row, because they are one standing under three names.

Career rates facts

Career averages over Blagoy Ivanov’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 / min3.25
Striking accuracy40%
Strikes absorbed / min4.20
Striking defence53%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.69
Takedown accuracy40%
Takedown defence61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.10

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the 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 Heavyweight.
Striking47
Defence52
Grappling / TD23
Cardio58
Chin97
Fight IQ55

Our calls on Blagoy Ivanov’s fights

We have not called one of Blagoy Ivanov’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 2 of Blagoy Ivanov’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

Blagoy Ivanov

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

HEAD78.0%ACC 35%BODY20.1%ACC 84%LEGS1.9%FIELD 14%
FightIQ read Head-hunter 78.0% of everything he lands goes upstairs — +11.0 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
78.0% acc 35%+11.0 vs field
BODY
20.1% acc 84%+1.6 vs field
LEGS
1.9%−12.6 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 89%CLINCH 9%GROUND 2%

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.

8 UFC fights · 422 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Blagoy Ivanov

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

0.69takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.69 takedowns and 0.10 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS20
0.69 / 15m−1.70 vs field
ATTEMPTS22
1.72 / 15m−3.33 vs field
ACCURACY42
40%−11pp vs field
SUB ATT7
0.10 / 15m−1.61 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.29 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 Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 19-6. In the UFC: 3-5. Blagoy Ivanov’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 — 8 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2023-07-01LAlexandr RomanovDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Magomedov
2023-02-04LMarcin TyburaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Spivac
2022-05-07WMarcos Rogerio de LimaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 274: Oliveira vs. Gaethje
2020-05-30LAugusto SakaiDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Woodley vs. Burns
2019-11-02LDerrick LewisDecision (split)R3UFC 244: Masvidal vs. Diaz
2019-06-08WTai TuivasaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 238: Cejudo vs. Moraes
2019-03-09WBen RothwellDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos
2018-07-14LJunior Dos SantosDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Dos Santos vs. Ivanov

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.

On the map

The 6 cities Blagoy Ivanov has fought a UFC bout in. Every pin was looked up by name in OpenStreetMap’s gazetteer and stored with the answer it gave; nothing here is estimated.

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA — 3 bouts, 2020–2023Boise, Idaho, USA — 1 bout, 2018Chicago, Illinois, USA — 1 bout, 2019New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2019Phoenix, Arizona, USA — 1 bout, 2022Wichita, Kansas, USA — 1 bout, 2019

Coastline: Natural Earth (public domain). Pins: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Every host city and camp on one map.

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