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Giga Chikadze

UFC 8-5Pro 15-7tale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Giga Chikadze’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Decision fighter

UFC recordUFC 8-5 first fight 2019-09-28 · last fight 2026-09-19
Pro record15-7
Current streak4 losses
Last 5 (UFC)L L L L W
DivisionFeatherweight
Age38
Height6' 0"
StanceOrthodox

6' 0" orthodox decision fighter campaigning at Featherweight. 8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 5 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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameNinja
Nationalitypending
Hometownpending
Camppending
Height6' 0"
Reach74"
StanceOrthodox
Age38
Date of birthAug 25, 1988
Weight145 lbs.
Pro record15-7
UFC recordUFC 8-5 first fight 2019-09-28 · last fight 2026-09-19
Finish split8 UFC wins — 3 KO/TKO, 5 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Giga Chikadze 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.

Giga Chikadze in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Featherweight224 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 26 April 2021#6–10 · from the table of 3 May 2021No table on record · Dec 2021 – Jan 2022#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2022No table on record · Dec 2022 – Jan 2023#6–10 · from the table of 17 January 2023#11–15 · from the table of 17 September 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#11–15 · from the table of 14 January 2025#11–15 · from the table of 1 July 2025First rankedLast ranked
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#7Featherweight · Dec 2021
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–50never inside the top five
CurrentUnrankedsince Dec 2025

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 Giga Chikadze’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 / min3.75
Striking accuracy43%
Strikes absorbed / min3.55
Striking defence59%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.18
Takedown accuracy33%
Takedown defence65%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.20

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Featherweight 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 Featherweight.
Striking60
Defence60
Grappling / TD16
Cardio76
Chin54
Fight IQ53

Our calls on Giga Chikadze’s fights

Every fight of Giga Chikadze’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 1 of Giga Chikadze’s fights in 2026: 1 correct (1–0 — 100% 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
2026-09-19Joanderson BritoJoanderson Brito (against Chikadze)82.2%Correct
back-tested

Across our full back-tested history we called 4 of Giga Chikadze’s fights, 4 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

Giga Chikadze

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

HEAD57.6%ACC 32%BODY26.5%ACC 65%LEGS15.9%ACC 79%
FightIQ read Balanced attack 58% head / 26% body / 16% legs — no single target dominates.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
57.6% acc 32%−5.5 vs field
BODY
26.5% acc 65%+6.3 vs field
LEGS
15.9% acc 79%−0.8 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 92%CLINCH 1%GROUND 8%

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.

13 UFC fights · 596 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Giga Chikadze

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

0.18takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Rarely shoots 0.18 takedowns landed per 15 minutes — −2.40 on the field average.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS1
0.18 / 15m−2.40 vs field
ATTEMPTS2
0.55 / 15m−5.56 vs field
ACCURACY39
33%−10pp vs field
SUB ATT8
0.20 / 15m−1.07 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.09 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 Featherweight

Recent form

Pro record: 15-7. In the UFC: 8-5. Giga Chikadze’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.

Post-fight bonuses

3 post-fight bonuses since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Fight of the Night, 2 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2022-01-15FOTNFight of the NightCalvin KattarUFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze
2021-05-01POTNPerformance of the NightCub SwansonUFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka
2020-11-07POTNPerformance of the NightJamey SimmonsUFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira

The UFC's post-fight bonus programme began in 2006, so every total here is a career total since 2006. A fighter who fought only before then has no bonuses because the award did not exist yet. Fight of the Night is a shared award and is credited to both fighters. Performance, Knockout and Submission of the Night are individual awards, credited to the fighter the official record names.

Awards whose recipient the official list does not name are credited to nobody, so these counts are a floor: 245 of 1,339 Performance of the Night and 1 of 180 Submission of the Night awards are unassigned as of 11 October 2026.

Full UFC career — 13 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2026-09-19LJoanderson BritoKO/TKOR1UFC 331: Van vs. Pantoja 2
2025-12-13LKevin VallejosKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Royval vs. Kape
2025-04-26LDavid OnamaDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Machado Garry vs. Prates
2024-07-27LArnold AllenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC 304: Edwards vs. Muhammad 2
2023-08-26WAlex CaceresDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Holloway vs. The Korean Zombie
2022-01-15LCalvin KattarDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze
2021-08-28WEdson BarbozaKO/TKOR3UFC Fight Night: Barboza vs. Chikadze
2021-05-01WCub SwansonKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Reyes vs. Prochazka
2020-11-07WJamey SimmonsKO/TKOR1UFC Fight Night: Santos vs. Teixeira
2020-10-10WOmar MoralesDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Moraes vs. Sandhagen
2020-05-16WIrwin RiveraDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Overeem vs. Harris
2020-03-07WJamall EmmersDecision (split)R3UFC 248: Adesanya vs. Romero
2019-09-28WBrandon DavisDecision (split)R3UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs. Cannonier

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 8 cities Giga Chikadze 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 — 6 bouts, 2020–2025Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Copenhagen, Denmark — 1 bout, 2019Jacksonville, Florida, USA — 1 bout, 2020Kallang, Singapore — 1 bout, 2023Kansas City, Missouri, USA — 1 bout, 2025Los Angeles, California, USA — 1 bout, 2026Manchester, England, United Kingdom — 1 bout, 2024

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

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