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Diyar Nurgozhay

UFC 2-2Pro 12-2tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Diyar Nurgozhay’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Technical striker

UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2025-03-15 · last fight 2026-08-08
Pro record12-2
Current streak2 wins
Last 4 (UFC)W W L L
DivisionLight Heavyweight
Age29
Height6' 2"
StanceSouthpaw

6' 2" southpaw technical striker campaigning at Light Heavyweight. 2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision. Top 7% of Light Heavyweights: completes 75% of his takedown attempts and connects with 61% of his significant strikes.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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. Where a fighter was born and where they fight out of come from their Wikipedia entry; where we hold neither, the hometown shown is Sherdog’s. 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.

Nicknamepending
NationalityKazakhstan
Hometown (per Sherdog)Astana
CampTobet Top Team
Height6' 2"
Reach74"
StanceSouthpaw
Age29
Date of birthApr 22, 1997
Weight205 lbs.
Pro record12-2
UFC recordUFC 2-2 first fight 2025-03-15 · last fight 2026-08-08
Finish split2 UFC wins — 1 KO/TKO, 1 decision
Social

Career rates facts

Career averages over Diyar Nurgozhay’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 / min5.19
Striking accuracy61%
Strikes absorbed / min2.81
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min1.19
Takedown accuracy75%
Takedown defence72%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Light 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 Light Heavyweight.
Striking90
Defence74
Grappling / TD66
Cardio limited sample48
Chin55
Fight IQ67

Our calls on Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights

Every fight of Diyar Nurgozhay’s that we called in the live 2026 season — whichever corner we called it for. Posted before the fight, graded after it.

FightIQ has called 2 of Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–1 — 50% right). Each call was posted before the fight and graded after it. The confidence % is the number we stood behind at the time — losses shown, toss-ups included.

DateOpponentWe called it forConfidenceResult
2026-08-08Bruno LopesDiyar Nurgozhay56.5%Correct
2026-03-07Rafael TobiasRafael Tobias (against Nurgozhay)70.4%Missed
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 2 of Diyar Nurgozhay’s fights, 0 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

Diyar Nurgozhay

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

HEAD33.7%ACC 45%BODY36.8%ACC 75%LEGS29.5%ACC 86%
FightIQ read Leg-kick specialist 29.5% of his landed strikes are to the legs — +12.7 on the field average.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
33.7% acc 45%−30.5 vs field
BODY
36.8% acc 75%+17.7 vs field
LEGS
29.5% acc 86%+12.7 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 83%CLINCH 5%GROUND 12%

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.

4 UFC fights · 166 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Diyar Nurgozhay

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

1.19takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Takedowns in the mix 1.19 landed per 15 minutes — −1.13 on the field average — a real part of the arsenal, not the whole of it.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS40
1.19 / 15m−1.13 vs field
ATTEMPTS13
1.59 / 15m−3.92 vs field
ACCURACY93
75%+31pp vs field
SUB ATT
0.00 / 15m−1.60 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.25 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 Light Heavyweight

Recent form

Pro record: 12-2. In the UFC: 2-2. Diyar Nurgozhay’s last 4 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 — 4 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-08-08WBruno LopesKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Gamrot vs. Salkilld
2026-03-07WRafael TobiasDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 326: Holloway vs. Oliveira 2
2025-08-23LUran SatybaldievSubmissionR1UFC Fight Night: Walker vs. Zhang
2025-03-15LBrendson RibeiroSubmissionR2UFC Fight Night: Vettori vs. Dolidze 2

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 scale

Diyar Nurgozhay’s official weigh-ins — the weight the commission read off the scale, and the limit it had to be under.

DateOpponentWeight / limitDivisionSource
2026-08-08Bruno Lopes205 / 206MADELight HeavyweightUFC.com
2026-03-07Rafael Tobias205.5 / 206MADELight HeavyweightUFC.com

Weigh-in results cover the 31 UFC cards held in 2026 so far — 24 January 2026 to 12 September 2026. Earlier years are not on file yet, so a fighter with no row here is not a fighter who never missed weight.

On the map

The 2 cities Diyar Nurgozhay has fought a UFC bout in and the hometown on the record. 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, 2025–2026Shanghai, Hebei, China — 1 bout, 2025Hometown: Astana

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

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