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Nassourdine Imavov

UFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC)Pro 17-4Ranked #3 · Middleweighttale of the tape = factsmetrics = our read

FightIQ’s profile

Built from Nassourdine Imavov’s own numbers — record, form, fighting style and standout rate. Not reported prose. Knockout puncher

UFC recordUFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2020-10-03 · last fight 2025-09-06
Pro record17-4
Current streak5 wins
Last 5 (UFC)W W W W W
DivisionMiddleweight
Age30
Height6' 3"
StanceOrthodox

6' 3" orthodox knockout puncher campaigning at Middleweight. 9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 decision. Top 17% of Middleweights: lands 4.28 significant strikes a minute and stuffs 81% of the takedowns tried on him.

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from the official fight record and the striking and grappling numbers on this page — there is no stored snapshot to go out of date.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.

NicknameThe Sniper
NationalityFrance
Born inKhasavyurt, Dagestan, Russia Wikipedia
Fights out ofParis, France Wikipedia
CampVenum Training Camp
Height6' 3"
Reach75"
StanceOrthodox
Age30
Date of birthMar 01, 1996
Weight185 lbs.
Pro record17-4
UFC recordUFC 9-2 (1 draw/NC) first fight 2020-10-03 · last fight 2025-09-06
Finish split9 UFC wins — 4 KO/TKO, 5 decision
Social

Rank history facts

Every week Nassourdine Imavov 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.

Nassourdine Imavov in the official UFC rankings, Feb 2013 to Oct 2026: one row per table, filled with the status each published table set20132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026Middleweight248 weeks on the tables#11–15 · from the table of 8 November 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 2023#6–10 · from the table of 6 February 2024#1–5 · from the table of 11 June 2024No table on record · Dec 2024 – Jan 2025#1–5 · from the table of 14 January 2025First rankedPeak #1Ranked today
Champion#1–5#6–10#11–15Outside the tableNo table on record
Peak#1Middleweight · Feb 2025
Weeks as champion0never held the belt
Weeks at #1–5119on the published tables, title reigns aside
Current#3Middleweight · Oct 2026

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 Nassourdine Imavov’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 / min4.28
Striking accuracy54%
Strikes absorbed / min3.17
Striking defence58%
Grappling
Takedowns / 15 min0.74
Takedown accuracy32%
Takedown defence81%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.00

FightIQ Metrics

Six 0–100 scores, each a percentile rank against the Middleweight 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 Middleweight.
Striking82
Defence63
Grappling / TD35
Cardio60
Chin98
Fight IQ68

Our calls on Nassourdine Imavov’s fights

We have not called one of Nassourdine Imavov’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 6 of Nassourdine Imavov’s fights, 5 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

Nassourdine Imavov

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

HEAD68.1%ACC 48%BODY19.8%ACC 74%LEGS12.1%ACC 85%
FightIQ read Head-first striker 68.1% upstairs — +4.6 on the field average, with the rest spread below.
Share by zonevs field average
HEAD
68.1% acc 48%+4.6 vs field
BODY
19.8% acc 74%−0.7 vs field
LEGS
12.1% acc 85%−3.9 vs field
Where the offence happens
DISTANCE 73%CLINCH 15%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.

12 UFC fights · 784 landed

Takedowns

Takedowns

Nassourdine Imavov

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

0.74takedowns / 15 min
FightIQ read Mixed grappling 0.74 takedowns and 1.00 submission attempts per 15 minutes.
Career ratesvs field average
TAKEDOWNS20
0.74 / 15m−1.54 vs field
ATTEMPTS27
2.31 / 15m−3.02 vs field
ACCURACY27
32%−15pp vs field
SUB ATT59
1.00 / 15m−0.55 vs field

Rate bars run to the population’s 95th percentile (6.86 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 Middleweight

Recent form

Pro record: 17-4. In the UFC: 9-2-1. Nassourdine Imavov’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

1 post-fight bonus since the UFC’s bonus programme began in 2006 — 1 Performance of the Night.

DateAwardOpponentEvent
2025-02-01POTNPerformance of the NightIsrael AdesanyaUFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov

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 — 12 bouts every fight on the official record, newest first
DateOpponentMethodRdEvent
2025-09-06WCaio BorralhoDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Imavov vs. Borralho
2025-02-01WIsrael AdesanyaKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Adesanya vs. Imavov
2024-09-28WBrendan AllenDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Saint Denis
2024-06-08WJared CannonierKO/TKOR4UFC Fight Night: Cannonier vs. Imavov
2024-02-03WRoman DolidzeDecision (majority)R5UFC Fight Night: Dolidze vs. Imavov
2023-06-10DChris CurtisCould not continueR2UFC 289: Nunes vs. Aldana
2023-01-14LSean StricklandDecision (unanimous)R5UFC Fight Night: Strickland vs. Imavov
2022-09-03WJoaquin BuckleyDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Gane vs. Tuivasa
2021-11-06WEdmen ShahbazyanKO/TKOR2UFC 268: Usman vs. Covington 2
2021-07-24WIan HeinischKO/TKOR2UFC Fight Night: Sandhagen vs. Dillashaw
2021-02-20LPhil HawesDecision (majority)R3UFC Fight Night: Blaydes vs. Lewis
2020-10-03WJordan WilliamsDecision (unanimous)R3UFC Fight Night: Holm vs. Aldana

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 7 cities Nassourdine Imavov 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 — 4 bouts, 2021–2024Paris, Ile-de-France, France — 3 bouts, 2022–2025Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — 1 bout, 2020Louisville, Kentucky, USA — 1 bout, 2024New York City, New York, USA — 1 bout, 2021Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — 1 bout, 2025Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada — 1 bout, 2023

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

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